"Mike Westerhof (mwester)" <[email protected]> writes: > Shouldn't user-space be alerted to the invalid data, and deal with it in > a user-space-specific fashion? It seems to me that this patch is really
Maybe, if the timeouts are not persistent then probably returning stale data to userland is ok? For example current_now is updated only about every 25 seconds? However, if the timeouts persist for hours then userland definitely should be told about it. Is there some explanation on why these timeouts happen and how long they can last? > Maybe we should return "-1" as the value for the fields instead. This of course means that we need to document this somehow and make sure userland developers hear about it and update their code?
