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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp timer.c 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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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