parallel/test-fs-utimes y2k38 test fails on mips(el)

[kapouer]

When building nodejs 8.9.3 with shared libuv 1.18.0, on a debian build server:
https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=mipsel-sil-01

not ok 545 parallel/test-fs-utimes
 ---
 duration_ms: 3.231
 severity: fail
 stack: |-
 assert.js:42
 throw new errors.AssertionError({
 ^
 
 AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: 2147483648 === 2147483647
 at Object.<anonymous> (/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/test/parallel/test-fs-utimes.js:181:10)
 at Module._compile (module.js:635:30)
 at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:646:10)
 at Module.load (module.js:554:32)
 at tryModuleLoad (module.js:497:12)
 at Function.Module._load (module.js:489:3)
 at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:676:10)
 at startup (bootstrap_node.js:187:16)
 at bootstrap_node.js:608:3

This is the only unexpected test failure of the test-ci-js suite.
It seems 'mips' (and variants) should be added to

node/test/parallel/test-fs-utimes.js

Line 181 in f94eec0

if (!process.arch.includes('arm') && !common.isSunOS) {

but since i don't understand why, i don't do the PR.

[bnoordhuis]

That makes two of us. @refack Why was ARM excluded? It's not clear from reading through #13281.

[kapouer]

Update: maybe because arm is the only supported 32-bit arch ?

[bnoordhuis]

x86 was still being tested when you opened this issue so that can't be it. Ping @refack again.

[refack]

That makes two of us. @refack Why was ARM excluded? It's not clear from reading through #13281.

AFAIK Y2K38 is predominantly a signed/unsigned issue not a 32bit issue.

@bnoordhuis AFAIR the intent of #13281 was to solve on Windows. We tested empirically and found that on our CI all POSIX can also handle this, except ARM and SmartOS, so they were excluded.
Since the fix was on node's side (not in libuv), I didn't dug any further, and assumed it's a kernel level fix.¹

RE MIPS, we don't have a MIPS machine in CI.

[refack]

P.S. this was also part of the #12607 / #12818 / #13256 cluster so I was probably afraid to break something again.

[jasnell]

There's been no activity on this in 2 years. Closing. Can reopen if necessary.