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Re: [PATCH 00/12] Y2038 preparation: use clock_[gs]ettime to implement the other time-getting and -setting functions

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx dot de>, Alistair Francis <alistair23 at gmail dot com>, Stepan Golosunov <stepan at golosunov dot pp dot ru>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb dot de>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:55:35 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Y2038 preparation: use clock_[gs]ettime to implement the other time-getting and -setting functions
References: <20190820132152.24100-1-zackw@panix.com>

Zack Weinberg wrote:

If a 64-bit tv_sec value returned by
the kernel is found to be greater than INT32_MAX, the caller will
receive a saturated 32-bit struct timeval, { INT32_MAX, 0 },


Shouldn't that saturated value be { INT32_MAX, 999999 }?

PS. Thanks for all this work. The idea looks good.

References:
- [PATCH 00/12] Y2038 preparation: use clock_[gs]ettime to implement the other time-getting and -setting functions
  - From: Zack Weinberg

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