On 12.12.2018 22:27, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 08:46:33PM +0100, Michał Górny 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. > > Joerg > I disagree, this used to be a flaw in C/POSIX interface to keep one specific point of time invalid. It should be fixed similarly to other OSes. Maintaining signed (negative) time_t is another and more generic topic. In real life it's often needed to store time_t pointing before the UNIX epoch.
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