netdev - Re: [PATCH 1 of 5] IPv6: do not wrap around when the lifetime has expired

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:25:39 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, pekkas@...core.fi, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 5] IPv6: do not wrap around when the lifetime has
 expired

In article <dd125a7f86968371046d.1206305169@...zuine> (at Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:46:09 +0100), Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org> says:

> IPv6: do not wrap around when the lifetime has expired
> 
> Instead of reporting overly large lifetimes to userspace,
> report a lifetime of 0 when a lifetime has expired.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org>

NAK.

(signed) lifetime < 0 means it has expired, but 0 does not mean
that the lifetime has expired, but it is being expired
(within 1 second).

--yoshfuji
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