From: Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@Bull.Net>
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: Aniruddha M Marathe <aniruddha.marathe@wipro.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Chandrashekhar RS <chandra.smurthy@wipro.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] settimeofday(2) succeeds for microsecond value more thanUSEC_PER_SEC and for negative value
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:33:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E96C417.B11A5AA0@Bull.Net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E966009.1060501@mvista.com
george anzinger wrote:
>
> I suppose it is too much to ask, but it would be nice if
> do_sys_settimeofday() took a timespec instead of a timeval. Of course
> this changes the interface for all the archs, but it would allow the
> clock_settimeofday to send in the nsec value.
IMHO on IA64 it would not be a bad idea since internally everything is
computed on nsec. Currently there is conversion from usec to nsec at the
beginning of do_sys_settimeofday() :-)
I could support you on IA64 to do the change if this is needed.
Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-11 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-11 5:12 [BUG] settimeofday(2) succeeds for microsecond value more than USEC_PER_SEC and for negative value Aniruddha M Marathe
2003-04-11 6:26 ` george anzinger
2003-04-11 13:33 ` Eric Piel [this message]
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