Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
(UTC) rather than the archaic (GMT) in comments. Except where the
comments are making fun of people doing this (and pedants who insist
on the new terms).
to and from struct timespec, to replace the crummy conversion
function which have been copy&pasted into three different
filesystems already.
Apart from general crummyness as indicated by code like:
for (year = 1970;; year++) {
inc = year & 0x03 ? 365 : 366;
if (days < inc)
break;
days -= inc;
}
They also contain specialized crummyness which tries to compensate
for the general crummyness by caching recent conversion results,
with no regard for locking or consistency.
These replacement functions are smaller, O(1) and handle the Y2.1K
leap-year correctly.
Ideally, these functions should live in a module of their own,
which the three offending filesystems would depend on, but the
size is 877 bytes of code (on i386), so that would be false
economy.
