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Pavel Machek's brain exploded one day, and as he was picking up the broken shards, he noticed that the 2.4 Linux kernel has a 'year 9223372034708485227 problem'. According to his tests, on January 1, 9223372034708485227 all 2.4 systems will cease to process commands, and just give segfaults. He said, "I wonder how much damage it will do to my filesystems: touch foo seems to store the right year into reiserfs. I wonder if it is still there after reboot? No, it is not. That looks like kernel bug :-)."
Kernel Traffic #278 For 19 Oct By Zack Brown