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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	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()
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:29:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fx07rx9i.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilaOOlzS2cJXCJF8Qn_cqjr7ywUv9RUTSsK9pf3@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:15:26 -0700")

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?

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-28 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-25 19:20 Q: sys_futex() && timespec_valid() Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-25 19:42 ` Darren Hart
2010-06-25 19:49   ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-06-25 20:11     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-06-28 13:58     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-28 14:37       ` Jakub Jelinek
2010-06-28 15:02         ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-25 19:56   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-06-25 19:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-06-25 20:04   ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-06-25 20:25     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-06-28 15:15     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-28 15:29       ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2010-06-28 15:33         ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-06-28 16:04         ` Linus Torvalds

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