Let's get rid of pivots

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sun Apr 23 18:26:03 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> We might want to include a sanity check in the pivot code.  The full range of 
> 32 bits of seconds is 136 years.  Most of that range doesn't make sense.  
> Does it make sense to set the clock to 100 years after the build time?

I would be very wary of making assumptions about the maximum service life of
an installed binary.
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