Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755202Ab0F1Pab (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:30:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:5533 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754238Ab0F1Pa2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:30:28 -0400 From: Andreas Schwab To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ulrich Drepper , Thomas Gleixner , Darren Hart , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Danny Feng , Jakub Jelinek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: Q: sys_futex() && timespec_valid() References: <235959492.961541277496281970.JavaMail.root@zmail06.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> X-Yow: Uh-oh!! I'm having TOO MUCH FUN!! Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:29:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:15:26 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 652 Lines: 18 Linus Torvalds writes: > We know it's not a valid absolute timeout, since there's no way > somebody is "waiting" for something that happened in the sixties. Should it reject timestamps from the seventies? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@redhat.com GPG Key fingerprint = D4E8 DBE3 3813 BB5D FA84 5EC7 45C6 250E 6F00 984E "And now for something completely different." -- 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/