Re: Support for tv_sec=-1 (one second before the epoch) timestamps?

[theo4490%borm.org@localhost]

On 12/12/18 8:46 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While researching libc++ test failures, I've discovered that NetBSD
> suffers from the same issue as FreeBSD -- that is, both the userspace
> tooling and the kernel have problems with (time_t)-1 timestamp,
> i.e. one second before the epoch.
>
> For example:

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Might I suggest that the obvious solution to this, and probably a host 
of other issues, is to make time_t an always negative number 
(negint/neglong?) and redefine the epoch as 03:14:09 UTC on Tuesday, 19 
January 2038, leaving (time-t) -1 as a special value for errors and 
halting the system when the clock would overflow to (time-t) 0 
(ENOMORETIME).

regards, theo