Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756250AbXLBS7u (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 13:59:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752484AbXLBS7m (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 13:59:42 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:3458 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751472AbXLBS7m (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 13:59:42 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 18:37:25 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Chris Snook , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c Message-ID: <20071202183724.GD4721@ucw.cz> References: <200711300019.lAU0Jpbr003807@tazenda.hos.anvin.org> <474F6E7A.3090705@redhat.com> <474F7DC4.8000607@zytor.com> <20071129194027.10046988@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <474F8984.4010602@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <474F8984.4010602@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 820 Lines: 24 On Thu 2007-11-29 19:54:44, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >> > >>Anyway, I don't think compiling bc is hard on anything > >>which has a C compiler. > > > >alternative is to just also ship the precomputed values > >;-) > > > > Oh, come on... it's not like bc is some obscure thing. > It's a POSIX utility. I think shiping precomputed values makes sense here. They are not going to change often, right? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/