Re: xnanosleep range with 64 bit time_t

[Frank v Waveren]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 11:43:30AM +0200, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> lib/xnanosleep.c currently assumes nanosleep works with any value that
> can be fit into the struct timespec. For gnu+linux on a 
> platform with 64 bit longs, this isn't true (it currently doesn't even
> return and error but just silently integer-overflows, but I've
> submitted a patch to make it error).

Thomas Gleixner has submitted a replacing patch that instead just
limits the timespec passed to the maximum, so that would make this
patch unnecessary for linux (at least for those with new kernels).

I think I prefer my solution of having it error, but even if his patch
gets accepted into 2.6.18, that still leaves everyone with an older
kernel, and solaris users (and given that I only checked linux and
solaris, other OSes are likely to have th same problem), so I still
think this patch to xnanosleep is worthwhile.

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