Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0.

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Dec 21 2007 - 20:52:26 EST


> And to handle potentially ambiguous cases we, for a long time, have
> the force_successful_syscall_return() arch hook.

Ah I see what you mean now.

Thanks for the clarification.

Ok that could be in theory made to work yes. The migration would
probably be ugly though (how would glibc figure out if the kernel
does that or not?)

-Andi
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