linux-kernel - Re: Q: sys_futex() && timespec

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:29:29 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Danny Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Q: sys_futex() && timespec_valid()

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-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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