linux-kernel - Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0.

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Message-ID: <20071222015311.GB4477@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:53:11 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	andi@...stfloor.org, mtk.manpages@...glemail.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, lkml@...idb.org, paulus@...ba.org,
	drepper@...hat.com, cfriesen@...tel.com, schwab@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0.

> And to handle potentially ambiguous cases we, for a long time, have
> the force_successful_syscall_return() arch hook. 

Ah I see what you mean now.

Thanks for the clarification.

Ok that could be in theory made to work yes. The migration would
probably be ugly though (how would glibc figure out if the kernel
does that or not?)

-Andi
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