Re: tlug: Y2K

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Let's take this to -advocacy ....

... for the y2k-paranoia stuff, yes.  The y2k-linux issue is a technical
issue.

> You mean like XFree86 and inetd and find?  Userland is everything that
> isn't the kernel or a kernel module desu ne?

*laugh* I was sure that you'd pick up on that.

Linux isn't a monolithic structure like *BSD or MS etc.  Userland comes
from a number of places -- usually the GNU project or BSD sources.  It's
pretty difficult to flatly state that linux is 100% compliant
across-the-board because of the wide variance in linux systems.

> XEmacs is y2k compliant, for what it's worth, as long as the OS it's
> running on is.  See http://www.xemacs.org/year2000.html.

As things running under a POSIX-compliant kernel should be.  I'm sure that
there are poorly-written programs running under linux that will blow up at
0001 01 January 2000, but I believe that these should be regarded as
application-specific issues rather than linux issues.

-- Chris

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