Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:02:49 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [REGRESSION][PATCH] mqueue: Ignore the validity of abs_timeout parameter when message can be performed immediately |
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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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