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The use of 'struct timespec' is deprecated in the kernel, so we want to avoid the conversions from/to the proper timespec64 structure. On the user space side, we have a 'struct timespec' that is defined by the C library and that will be incompatible with the kernel's view on 32-bit architectures once they move to a 64-bit time_t, breaking the shared binary layout of hostfs_iattr and hostfs_stat. This changes the two structures to use a new hostfs_timespec structure with fixed 64-bit seconds/nanoseconds for passing the timestamps between hostfs_kern.c and hostfs_user.c. With a new enough user space side, this will allow timestamps beyond year 2038. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.