Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [RESEND PATCH] timerfd: Allow TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET with relative timeouts | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:18:22 +0200 |
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On Monday 19 October 2015 11:53:25 John Stultz wrote: > > But yea. At the same time I get you want to avoid user-pain like in > the case of the badly initialized RTC, but in that case would > returning 0 for RTC reads greater then y2038 on 32 bit systems be a > more sane fix?
I like that idea. In theory we could go further and check that the RTC is somewhere between 2015 and 2037 (or higher on 64-bit systems) but return 0 (1970) for anything that is outside of that range. That might have side-effects for users that have a legitimate reason to backdate their clocks though.
Arnd
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