On Sad, 2005-01-15 at 09:30, Andrew Morton wrote: > Matthias Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These are things we probably cannot change now. All three are arguably > sensible behaviour and do satisfy the principle of least surprise. So > there may be apps out there which will break if we "fix" these things. > > If the kernel version was 2.7.0 then well maybe...
These are things we should fix. They are bugs. Since there is no 2.7 plan pick a date to fix it. We should certainly error the overflow case *now* because the behaviour is undefined/broken. The other cases I'm not clear about. setitimer() is a library interface and it can do the basic checking and error if it wants to be strictly posixly compliant. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
