Re: [PATCH] timekeeping: Limit system time to prevent 32-bit time_t overflow

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 08 October 2015 08:23:44 Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> > 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.

Applications are not allowed to rely on system time being sane?
To me the current behavior looks like the kernel is throwing the
applications off a cliff, while it's the only thing that can fly :).

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar
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