From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Akira Takeuchi <takeuchi.akr@jp.panasonic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>,
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION][PATCH] mqueue: Ignore the validity of abs_timeout parameter when message can be performed immediately
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:02:49 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1203151144280.2466@ionos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFygRpuCZ0K0_hon7t3H+qa3WKb3--VXooN8p14S6or2tw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> With the current code, checking the validity of the timeout falls out
> from what we do. I don't think we need to work around that, based on
> the POSIX wording. And if there are no applications that actually
> broke, I don't think we should care.
>
> Is there some other standard that says that you *have* to let crazy
> invalid values go?
Not that I'm aware of. Everything I found so far is copied from the
POSIX spec.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-15 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-02 7:42 [REGRESSION][PATCH] mqueue: Ignore the validity of abs_timeout parameter when message can be performed immediately Akira Takeuchi
2012-03-14 21:46 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-14 22:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-03-15 0:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-03-15 3:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-15 11:02 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2012-03-16 5:11 ` Akira Takeuchi
2012-03-23 0:03 ` Akira Takeuchi
2012-03-23 9:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-03-14 23:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
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