Re: Q: sys_futex() && timespec_valid()

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Mon Jun 28 2010 - 11:30:35 EST


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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