Re: [PATCH] ntp:Fix second_overflow's input parameter type

[John Stultz]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 8:26 PM, DengChao <chao.deng@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The function "second_overflow" uses "unsign long"
> as its input parameter type which will overflow after
> year 2106 on 32bit systems.
> Replace it with time64_t type.
> Because 64-bit division is expensive, since "next_ntp_leap_sec"
> has been calculated already, we can just re-use it in the
> TIME_INS/DEL cases instead of re-doing divsion which may occur
> once a second.
> Signed-off-by: DengChao <chao.deng@xxxxxxxxxx>

Queued for testing. I reworded the commit message a bit too.

thanks
-john
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