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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:36:08 +1100
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0.
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Andrew Morton writes:

> Yup.  But userspace will already have a fit if either the start or end time
> advanced into the glibc-thought-that-was-an-error range.

Not nearly as much of a fit.  The effect on x86 is that values between
-4095 and -1 are reported as -1, so the end-start difference will be
out by less than 41 seconds.  That's not nearly as dramatic as a
difference of 21 million seconds (over 16 years). :)

I really think that wrapping at 0x7fffffff makes the situation worse,
not better.

Paul.
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