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Re: Negative tv_sec and invalid time errors

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Subject: Re: Negative tv_sec and invalid time errors
From: Geoff Clare <yyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 09:52:37 +0000
References: <mtumzvjflzy.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu> <87hdlr3ygs.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>
Paul Eggert <yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote, on 08 Jan 2005:
>
> > The text for pthread_cond_timedwait(), however, just says:
> >
> > [EINVAL]
> >     The value specified by abstime is invalid.
> 
> This would appear to be an escape hatch (though I suspect not an
> intended one).

This one has already been raised as XSH ERN 44, which changes the
EINVAL condition to "The abstime argument specified a nanosecond value
less than zero or greater than or equal to 1000 million."

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