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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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-59 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: lukma@denx.de
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