Re: RFC: [PATCH] Enable olddelta to be NULL in adjtime(3)

[Pino Toscano]

On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 14:32:32 CEST Svante Signell wrote:
> The glibc patch sysdeps_mach_hurd_adjtime.c.diff use a dummy struct timeval to
> avoid calling ___host_adjust_time() in _adjtime() with a NULL third argument.
> Smarter solutions can probably be found, comments are welcome.

You don't need to duplicate the whole __host_adjust_time call:

  struct timeval dummy;
  ..
  if (olddelta == NULL)
    olddelta = &dummy;

should be enough.

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Pino Toscano