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

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:43:03 -0600

Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 2023-04-03 23:35, [email-masked] wrote:
> > Why in the world does grep even care about timestamps on files?
>
> The same reason 'awk' does. grep calls stat, fstat, etc., and the call 
> fails with errno == EOVERFLOW if the file's timestamp is past the year 2038.
>
> For the same reason I expect that awk, too, should use AC_SYS_YEAR2038 
> or its equivalent.

Wow!  That's all news to me!

I will have to look into this.

Thanks,

Arnold