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SubjectRe: [REGRESSION][PATCH] mqueue: Ignore the validity of abs_timeout parameter when message can be performed immediately
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> With the current code, checking the validity of the timeout falls out
> from what we do. I don't think we need to work around that, based on
> the POSIX wording. And if there are no applications that actually
> broke, I don't think we should care.
>
> Is there some other standard that says that you *have* to let crazy
> invalid values go?

Not that I'm aware of. Everything I found so far is copied from the
POSIX spec.

Thanks,

tglx


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