RE: [BUG] settimeofday(2) succeeds for microsecond value more than USEC_PER_SEC and for negative value

[Aniruddha M Marathe]

Even then, I think, we can modify the settimeofday  code to check -1 and USEC_PER_SEC
Conditions, can't we?

|-----Original Message-----
|From: george anzinger [mailto:[e-mail]] 
|Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 11:56 AM
|To: Aniruddha M Marathe
|Cc: [e-mail]; Chandrashekhar RS
|Subject: Re: [BUG] settimeofday(2) succeeds for microsecond 
|value more than USEC_PER_SEC and for negative value
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|Aniruddha M Marathe wrote:
|> Settimeofday(2) should return EINVAL in case where 
|tv.tv_usec parameter is more than 
|> USEC_PER_SEC (more than 10^6 ) or for negative values of tv.tv_usec. 
|> It returns 0 (success) instead.
|> 
|> Clock_settimeofday(2) (kernel/posix-timers.c) also uses 
|do_sys_settimeofday() and faces the
|> Same problem.
|> 
|> I think this is a bug. If you confirm, I will send a patch.
|
|Yes, it is a known problem, turned up by some the posix timers tests. 
|  I suppose it is too much to ask, but it would be nice if 
|do_sys_settimeofday() took a timespec instead of a timeval.  Of course 
|this changes the interface for all the archs, but it would allow the 
|clock_settimeofday to send in the nsec value.
|
|-g
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|> 
|> Regards,
|> Aniruddha Marathe
|> WIPRO Technologies, India
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