Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 06:57:56 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: brian@awfulhak.org, 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: <199705100557.GAA14408@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 May 1997 15:42:38 %2B1000." <199705100542.PAA06971@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 ?
>
> I checked some other systems:
>
> FreeBSD-1.1.5: same as now. Overflows are avoided for starting times
> between 1970 and 1935 by limiting itimer values to about
> 3 years.
> Linux-2.1.29: timevals are converted to jiffies and not used again; some
> overflows are corrected, others give silly times.
I dunno if I should ask, but what's a jiffie (note there's no capital
J !).
> Bruce
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