Re: nanosleep truncated on 64 bit Linux by 292 billion years

2014-10-28 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Pádraig Brady wrote: > I noticed that nanosleep() on 64 bit, "only" supports 292 years, > rather than the full potential 292 billion years with 64 bit time_t, due to: > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/include/linux/time.h?id=refs/tags/v3.16#

Re: RFC: too aggressive nanosleep replacement on 64 bit Linux?

2014-08-05 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Paul Eggert wrote: > [CC'ing Thomas Gleixner, who maintains the Linux kernel's POSIX clocks and > timers. Thomas, this thread started at > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2014-08/msg5.html>.] > > Pádraig Brady wrote: >