Re: [Patch 1/9] timestamp diff

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 20:05 -0500, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 20:01, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 19:42 -0500, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> > > +       ret->tv_sec = end->tv_sec - start->tv_sec;
> > > +       ret->tv_nsec = end->tv_nsec - start->tv_nsec; 
> > 
> > What if end->tv_nsec is less than start->tv_nsec?
> 
> The caller of the func can decide what to do. 
> In our usage, we choose to not use the result of such a diff
> but others may want to return an error etc.

You don't think it's a problem that 2.0000001s - 1.9999999s would return
garbage rather than 0.0000002?

Lee

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