Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore%tadpole.com@localhost>]

Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore <gdamore%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
>   
>> Log Message:
>> Don't warn about RTC losing/gaining days if the filesystem time is bogus.
>>     
>
> The x86 port had code to make sure that, if time_t is 32 bits, you
> should get mad about times in 2038 and greater. (The code
> automagically was compiled out if time_t was > than 32 bits.)
>
> We be using that.
>
> Perry
>   

The "clock implementation" (i.e. the code that is called by
todr_gettime()) should check that.  For x86, it still does.  In such a
case it returns an error back to todr_gettime() rather than providing a
bogus time.

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