Re: [RFC v2 03/20] y2038: linux: Provide __clock_settime64 implementation

[Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx dot de>]

Hi Florian,

> * Lukasz Majewski:
> 
> >> In my opinion, an existing 32-bit architecture which does not
> >> provide the clock_settime system call (that it has provided
> >> before) is just broken, and will be so at least until 2038.  
> >
> > Am I correct, that you opt for first option that glibc shall return
> > just -ENOSYS in that case?  
> 
> I think it's undefined.  For clock_settime, the only useful outcome is
> -1 with errno set to ENOSYS.  However, there are some system calls
> which cannot really fail (time, for instance), and there I would say
> that behavior is simply undefined.

Ok. I see. So the clock_settime syscall shall return from glibc with -1
and errno set to ENOSYS (I shall NOT try to set the time with
clock_settime64 bit syscall in this case).

Thanks for explanation, appreciated.

> 
> Thanks,
> Florian




Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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