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Re:The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t by devit on Saturday September 28, 2024 @04:24PM (#41682724)
The C library uses macros so that the referenced symbols are different depending on ABI (e.g. open becomes open64, etc.), but most 3rd party libraries don't bother with that, so they break if their API uses time_t/off_t.
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