linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:53:17 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711302017100.18767@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <474F8984.4010602@zytor.com>


On Nov 29 2007 19:54, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> >
>> > Anyway, I don't think compiling bc is hard on anything which has a C
>> > compiler.
>> 
>> alternative is to just also ship the precomputed values ;-)
>> 
>
> Oh, come on... it's not like bc is some obscure thing.  It's a POSIX utility.

People try building linux on not-so-posix systems these days...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-03 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-30  0:19 [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30  1:54 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-30  3:01   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30  3:27   ` [PATCH] Documentation/Changes -> Documentation/Requirements H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30  3:32   ` [PATCH] Documentation/Changes -> Documentation/Requirements (resend without truncated comment text) H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30  7:16     ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-11-30 17:40       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30 17:47       ` [PATCH] Documentation/Changes -> Documentation/Requirements H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30 18:09         ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-11-30 18:20           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30  1:59 ` [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c Chris Snook
2007-11-30  3:04   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30  3:40     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-30  3:54       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-02 18:37         ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-03 14:53         ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]
2007-12-10 16:37           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-01  0:33 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-01  4:19   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-01 13:20   ` Alan Cox
2007-12-01 13:33     ` Alan Cox
2007-12-02  1:53     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-07  0:22   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-04 11:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-10 16:46   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-10 18:59   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-10 22:04     ` Andrew Morton

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.64.0711302017100.18767@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr \
    --to=jengelh@computergmbh.de \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=arjan@infradead.org \
    --cc=csnook@redhat.com \
    --cc=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).