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SubjectRe: [BUG] settimeofday(2) succeeds for microsecond value more than USEC_PER_SEC and for negative value
Aniruddha M Marathe wrote:
> Settimeofday(2) should return EINVAL in case where tv.tv_usec parameter is more than
> USEC_PER_SEC (more than 10^6 ) or for negative values of tv.tv_usec.
> It returns 0 (success) instead.
>
> Clock_settimeofday(2) (kernel/posix-timers.c) also uses do_sys_settimeofday() and faces the
> Same problem.
>
> I think this is a bug. If you confirm, I will send a patch.

Yes, it is a known problem, turned up by some the posix timers tests.
I suppose it is too much to ask, but it would be nice if
do_sys_settimeofday() took a timespec instead of a timeval. Of course
this changes the interface for all the archs, but it would allow the
clock_settimeofday to send in the nsec value.

-g

>
> Regards,
> Aniruddha Marathe
> WIPRO Technologies, India
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