bug#62647: [INSTALL] grep: re-fix Y2038 bug on glibc 2.34+ x86, ARM

[arnold]

Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:

> Thanks, Paul.
> I wanted to see how this would make grep fail, but don't
> have convenient access to such hosts. Would this trigger the failure?
>
>   touch -t 203901010000 f
>   grep ^ f
>
> How does it fail?

Why in the world does grep even care about timestamps on files?

Thanks,

Arnold