bug in x86/uclibc busybox touch

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Thursday 30 December 2010 03:32, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Denys Vlasenko
> <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 December 2010 13:54, Natanael Copa wrote:
> >> $ touch -t 0001010000 moo
> >> touch: invalid date '0001010000'
> >>
> >> the above works with coreutils touch and interestingly enough, with
> >> x86_64 uclibc busybox
> >
> > Because 1900-01-01 is a negative Unix time which doesn't fit
> > into 32-bit long.
> 
> A 64 bit target shouldn't have the "year 2038" problem.  Midnight
> January 1 1970, plus or minus 68 years and change.
> 
> > "busybox touch -t 0112130000 file" works,
> > and sets t=-2147475600 (0x80001f70).
> >
> > Previous day, -t 0112130000, doesn't.
> 
> If you ls -l the file "moo" after creating it above, its date is
> 01-01-2000.  Not 1900.

In busybox touch, it will be 19xx (on 64-bit machines,
where date 1900-01-01 fits into time_t).

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