From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761241AbXKHOnu (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:43:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759002AbXKHOnm (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:43:42 -0500 Received: from zcars04f.nortel.com ([47.129.242.57]:53393 "EHLO zcars04f.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758848AbXKHOnm (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:43:42 -0500 Message-ID: <4733206C.8030903@nortel.com> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:42:52 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Schwab CC: David Miller , 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. References: <20071107152833.6f302c2a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071107161853.044b6e8f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <18226.27701.782268.375231@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20071107.180918.263752219.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Nov 2007 14:42:56.0955 (UTC) FILETIME=[A6E210B0:01C82215] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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