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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,  yantar92@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What were the Emacs versions with dates limited to 1970 .. 2037 year range?
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 09:19:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva6ag9033.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bkuxuw4z.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 13 Jun 2022 05:37:00 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii [2022-06-13 05:37:00] wrote:
>> Come 2037, the systems with unfixed libc's will automatically become
>> obsolete.  We won't have to do anything.
> Emacs compiled with those obsolete libc versions can be moved to a
> newer system, and will generally still continue working.

I don't think so, unless they come with two different `libc`s, in which
case those applications using the newer `libc` might still work and
those with the old `libc` won't, but even so users of such a system will
presumably know that those programs using the old `libc` need to be run
in a specialized environment with a bogus time or something like that.

The argument is that whatever happens to Emacs will also happen to ll
other programs using that same `libc`, so Emacs doesn't really need to
say anything.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-13 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-12  9:13 What were the Emacs versions with dates limited to 1970 .. 2037 year range? Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-12  9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-12  9:51   ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-12 10:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-12 14:21       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-12 14:41         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13  0:30           ` Po Lu
2022-06-13  2:37             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13  9:25               ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-13 11:49                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 13:19               ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-06-13 13:29                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 16:40                   ` Stefan Monnier

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