Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:33:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
       Danny Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Q: sys_futex() && timespec_valid()
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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?

No, because that's in the _VALID_ range of CLOCK_REALTIME and tv_sec
is >= 0. So we are nice to the post flower power folks.

Thanks,

	tglx
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