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bug#29033: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: gzip-1.8.32-4606


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#29033: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: gzip-1.8.32-4606
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 17:35:50 -0700
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0

Bruno Haible wrote:
$ export TZ=UTC0
$ rm -f in in.gz; touch -t 190101010000 in; ../../gzip in; echo $?
0
$ rm -f in in.gz; touch -t 190101010000 in; ls -l --full-time in
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bruno bruno 0 1901-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000 in

This is due to a bug in the Linux kernel, when it emulates 32-bit Linux atop a 64-bit kernel. See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1419736

I see that Assaf reported the same bug against gzip here:

https://bugs.gnu.org/25636#8

I don't see an easy way of working around the bug in gzip proper. It will become a bigger deal when the year 2038 rolls around....

I suppose we could skip the test when running in 32-bit mode atop Linux x86-64, though that sort of misses the point of doing the test.





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