From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
paulus@samba.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, lkml@davidb.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com,
mtk-manpages@gmx.net
Subject: Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0.
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:42:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4733206C.8030903@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jetznxt4wu.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> A possible remedy is to return the ticks since process start time, which
> delays the wrap around much further. POSIX only demands consistency
> within the same process.
This would be an interesting solution.
The man page for linux states that the return code is time since system
boot, so that could realistically be expected to correlate between
different processes.
Could we get away with changing the man page and breaking any apps
relying on this previously-documented behaviour?
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-08 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-07 22:47 compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0 David Brown
2007-11-07 23:28 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 0:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 0:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-08 1:17 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 1:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08 2:09 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 10:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-08 14:42 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2007-11-09 18:20 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-12-20 11:36 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-12-20 11:51 ` David Miller
2007-12-22 0:42 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 1:41 ` David Miller
2007-12-22 1:45 ` David Miller
2007-12-22 1:53 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 4:36 ` David Miller
2007-12-22 12:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 1:49 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-08 19:25 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-11-08 3:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 3:13 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 5:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08 6:24 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 4:59 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08 5:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 5:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08 6:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 6:25 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 7:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 7:14 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 8:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-08 6:22 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 19:27 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-11-08 0:50 ` David Miller
2007-11-08 1:13 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-08 6:00 ` David Brown
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