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SubjectRe: [BUG] settimeofday(2) succeeds for microsecond value more thanUSEC_PER_SEC and for negative value
george anzinger wrote:
>
> 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.
IMHO on IA64 it would not be a bad idea since internally everything is
computed on nsec. Currently there is conversion from usec to nsec at the
beginning of do_sys_settimeofday() :-)
I could support you on IA64 to do the change if this is needed.

Eric
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