Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932531AbWCNBF2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:05:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932532AbWCNBF2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:05:28 -0500 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:24515 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932531AbWCNBF1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:05:27 -0500 Subject: Re: [Patch 1/9] timestamp diff From: Shailabh Nagar Reply-To: nagar@watson.ibm.com To: Lee Revell Cc: linux-kernel , Arjan van de Ven In-Reply-To: <1142298072.13256.70.camel@mindpipe> References: <1142296834.5858.3.camel@elinux04.optonline.net> <1142296939.5858.6.camel@elinux04.optonline.net> <1142298072.13256.70.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM Message-Id: <1142298325.5858.40.camel@elinux04.optonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:05:25 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 700 Lines: 22 On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 20:01, Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 19:42 -0500, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > > + ret->tv_sec = end->tv_sec - start->tv_sec; > > + ret->tv_nsec = end->tv_nsec - start->tv_nsec; > > What if end->tv_nsec is less than start->tv_nsec? The caller of the func can decide what to do. In our usage, we choose to not use the result of such a diff but others may want to return an error etc. --Shailabh > > Lee > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/