Re: unable to set time very far in the future

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <Y0xpDCeRITsSI0YT%netmeister.org@localhost>,
Jan Schaumann  <jschauma%netmeister.org@localhost> wrote:
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>RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost> wrote:
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>> There is a check in the kernel. In sys/kern/kern_time.c:
>> 
>>     190         /*
>>     191          * The time being set to an unreasonable value will cause
>>     192          * unreasonable system behaviour.
>>     193          */
>>     194         if (ts->tv_sec < 0 || ts->tv_sec > (1LL << 36))
>>     195                 return EINVAL;
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>Regardless of how we arrived at this value, I think
>our manual page should make note of settimeofday(2)
>setting errno, so I'm proposing the attached diff.
>
>Sound good?
>
>-Jan
>
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>Index: gettimeofday.2
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>RCS file: /cvsroot/src/lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2,v
>retrieving revision 1.29
>diff -r1.29 gettimeofday.2
>32c32
>< .Dd December 8, 2015
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>> .Dd October 16, 2022
>135a136,141
>> .It Bq Er EINVAL
>> .Fn settimeofday :
>> .Ar tp.tv_sec
>> is outside the range [0..2^36] or
>> .Ar tp.tv_usec
>> is outside the range [0..999,999].
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Committed, thanks!

christos