On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 12:38:32PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > > Do you feel the same about preventing the time from reaching > > KTIME_MAX? > > That's going to happen in ~500 years from now.
At any time if you include accidents and attacks on services with the CAP_SYS_TIME capability (e.g. NTP/PTP implementations). Even with 32-bit time_t you are not safe, the time can be set forward by any amount with multiple adjtimex(ADJ_SETOFFSET) calls. -- Miroslav Lichvar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
