bug#64937: "who" reports funny dates

[Paul Eggert]

On 2023-07-29 12:44, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I tried a quick build with -D__WORDSIZE_TIME64_COMPAT32=1
> which is what glibc uses to force the smaller time types.
> However that didn't fix the issue, so I'll need to look a bit more,
> and how to get only utmp access restricted to 32 bit types.

I looked into that, and installed the attached patches into Gnulib and 
Coreutils respectively; these should work around the problem so I'll 
boldly close the bug report.

These patches are quite a hack, though, and (obviously) stop working 
after the year 2038.

What's Debian's and/or Fedora's plan for fixing <utmp.h>/<utmpx.h>'s 
Y2038 bugs? (Or is the idea to remove the <utmp.h></utmpx.h> API before 
2038? :-)

See:

https://lwn.net/Articles/925068/

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign#utmp_types_and_APIs

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