Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] Validate itimer timeval from userspace | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:16:15 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 12:07 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> From my reading, 2.4's sys_setitimer() will normalise the incoming timeval > rather than rejecting it. And I think 2.6.13 did that too. > > It would be bad of us to change this behaviour, even if that's what the > spec says we should do - because we can break existing applications. > > So I think we're stuck with it - we should normalise and then accept such > timevals. And we should have a big comment explaining how we differ from > the spec, and why.
Hmm. How do you treat a negative value ?
tglx
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