Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 15:24:28 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, brian@awfulhak.org Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru, brian@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, CVS-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrsbin@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp timer.c Message-ID: <199705100524.PAA06538@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Actually it is, read the kernel source :-). The kernel checks the interval >> even when it doesn't use it and fails without doing anything if the interval >> is garbage (tv_sec < 0 || tv_sec > 10^8 || tv_usec < 0 || tv_usec >= 10^6). > >Should I fix kern/kern_time.c then ? No, it's not incorrect. It does almost exactly what the ERRORS section in the man page says: it returns EINVAL if "_a_ value parameter specified a time that was too large to be handled". The man page is just sloppy in not mentioning that it returns EINVAL if a value parameter was invalid. Bruce
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