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Re: [PATCH] time() syscall on i386

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>
Cc: libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:58:54 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] time() syscall on i386
References: <20051216153017.GA15785@suse.de>

That's no good solution. It still leaves the implementation inconsistent with other archs. I've checked in a version which will always crash on invalid pointers. This is how x86-64 works and likely other archs with time support in the vdso.

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References:
- [PATCH] time() syscall on i386
  - From: Thorsten Kukuk

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