Re: [PATCH] posix-timer: don't call idr_find() w/ negative ID

[Tejun Heo]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Why can the timer be negative in the first place though? Why isn't the timer
> defined as an 'unsigned int' instead of an 'int' so that all values of timer
> would be legitimate?

No idea but it's userland visible thing. No point in arguing about it.

Thanks.

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tejun
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