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Re: Support for tv_sec=-1 (one second before the epoch) timestamps?



On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:27:04PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 08:46:33PM +0100, Micha? G?rny wrote:
 > > While researching libc++ test failures, I've discovered that NetBSD
 > > suffers from the same issue as FreeBSD -- that is, both the userspace
 > > tooling and the kernel have problems with (time_t)-1 timestamp,
 > > i.e. one second before the epoch.
 > 
 > I see no reason why that should be valid or more general, why any
 > negative value of time_t is required to be valid.

Are you Dan Pop? :-)

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