Re: tlug: Y2K

["Eric S. Standlee" <fwiw3980@example.com>]

Thanks for all the advice.  I was kinda hoping for some urls...  but I
found www.year2000.com...

Eric S. Standlee
Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan
e-w.standlee@example.com
fwiw3980@example.com <default>

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> 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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