Fixing "touch" to reset ancient/weired/far-future timestamps... / was: Re: Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to64bit[PSARC/2008/351SelfReview]

[Darren Reed]

FWIW, I think we're approaching the time when we are going to need to
start thinking about transitioning time_t to being uint64_t - even for
32bit platforms (as a point of interest, earlier this year we went past
the point in time where a 32bit time_t can hold the start and end dates
of a 30 year mortgage.)

Currently we have it as  'long' (in <sys/types.h>), so we get 32bit
or 64bit depending on the CPU architecture.

The fallout of that should be things like stat64(2), etc...

Darren