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From: "johnstul at us dot ibm dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com
Subject: [Bug libc/9690] glibc time functionality broken with kernel 2.6.26 and later
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 23:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090507231235.25014.qmail@sourceware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081228205119.9690.hvengel@astound.net>


------- Additional Comments From johnstul at us dot ibm dot com  2009-05-07 23:12 -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> Again, there are two issues:
> - What the kernel takes as parameter. As you say, there is no problem
>   indeed, if the application hasn't set the STA_NANO flag, the kernel
>   converts properly.
> - What the kernel returns. nanoseconds values are advertised by the
>   kernel through the STA_NANO flag. But old applications didn't even
>   know that flag, and thus can not know that these are nanosecond
>   values.

So the concern is only with running old applications after a new application has
set the STA_NANO flag?

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9690

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-07 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-28 20:52 [Bug libc/9690] New: " hvengel at astound dot net
2009-01-10  9:11 ` [Bug libc/9690] " vapier at gentoo dot org
2009-02-07  5:13 ` drepper at redhat dot com
2009-02-07  6:31 ` hvengel at astound dot net
2009-04-26 23:45 ` samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org
2009-04-26 23:52 ` samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org
2009-05-07 21:28 ` johnstul at us dot ibm dot com
2009-05-07 22:59 ` samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org
2009-05-07 23:10 ` hvengel at astound dot net
2009-05-07 23:12 ` johnstul at us dot ibm dot com [this message]
2009-05-08 21:07 ` drepper at redhat dot com
2009-05-08 22:15 ` hvengel at astound dot net
     [not found] <bug-9690-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
2014-07-02  7:39 ` fweimer at redhat dot com

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