GNU bug report logs - #32342
[PATCH] Do not store mtime when compressing stdin

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Reported by: "Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann <at> suse.de>

Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 11:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 32342 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann <at> suse.de>, 32342 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32342: [PATCH] Allow to override time_stamp with
 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 09:01:05 -0700

On 08/02/2018 02:03 AM, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
> +        if ((source_date_epoch = getenv("SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH")) == NULL || (stamp = strtol(source_date_epoch, NULL, 10))

That won't work after 2038 on x32. Also, I'm leery of having environment 
variables affect standard utilities' behavior, though perhaps we could 
shoehorn this in.
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