can't wait for solutions of a similar nature around 2038-01-19

a free 68 more years!

(hopefully nobody optimized for the 1 signed bit when allocating memory tho)

https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/bits/utmp.h?id=5361...

The file format is obsolete (it assumes a fixed number of terminal lines per system) and has unfixable locking issues, so it has to be replaced anyway.