linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION][PATCH] mqueue: Ignore the validity of abs_timeout parameter when message can be performed immediately

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Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:02:49 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Akira Takeuchi <takeuchi.akr@...panasonic.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Carsten Emde <C.Emde@...dl.org>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION][PATCH] mqueue: Ignore the validity of abs_timeout
 parameter when message can be performed immediately

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
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