On Thursday 08 October 2015 08:23:44 Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 05:10:34PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Wednesday 07 October 2015 16:23:44 Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
Without the limit added by this patch make will go nuts just one week later when the 32-bit time_t overflows to Dec 13 1901 and the files will appear as 136 years in the future. How is that better?
Not better or worse at all, that was my point. The time is still wrong either way, whether you step back by a week or 136 years.
The difference is that with the one-week step the kernel and userspace still agree on the current time and it is always valid from the kernel point of view, absolute timers can be set, etc.
Ok, I can see that as an improvement, but it still seems to give a false sense of safety, and I feel we really should not have any code rely on this behavior.
Arnd