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| author | Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2007-05-08 00:30:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-08 11:15:13 -0700 |
| commit | 35bab756b49bd148760a3bbd3c907cd74754dbb4 (patch) | |
| tree | 8572b353c595a026931fe04e4bc20d1e50516e3f /Documentation | |
| parent | b3561ea9462b33a0bf824b4ca19a1ae84db81210 (diff) | |
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The scheduled -EINVAL for invalid timevals in setitimer
As scheduled, do_setitimer() now returns -EINVAL for invalid timeval.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 5a1f0319add1..54d0e72ce2c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -117,18 +117,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> --------------------------- -What: Usage of invalid timevals in setitimer -When: March 2007 -Why: POSIX requires to validate timevals in the setitimer call. This - was never done by Linux. The invalid (e.g. negative timevals) were - silently converted to more or less random timeouts and intervals. - Until the removal a per boot limited number of warnings is printed - and the timevals are sanitized. - -Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - ---------------------------- - What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports (temporary transition config option provided until then) The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. |