Can you elaborate on your concern?

Are you suggesting using difftime() instead of fabs()?  I agree that would 
probably be a good idea, but I don't see why this change would look scary to 
you.

--Jeremy

> On Oct 15, 2015, at 06:47, walter harms <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> some nitpicking ...
> man 3 difftime
> 
> i pretty sure it will cause a fundamental change ...
> 
> 
> just my 2 cents
> re,
> wh
> 
> Am 15.10.2015 00:13, schrieb Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia:
>> xdmauth.c:230:13: warning: absolute value function 'abs' given an argument 
>> of type 'long' but has parameter of
>> type
>> 'int'
>>      which may cause truncation of value [-Wabsolute-value,Semantic Issue]
>>        if (abs(now - client->time) > TwentyFiveMinutes) {
>>            ^
>> xdmauth.c:230:13: note: use function 'labs' instead [Semantic Issue]
>>        if (abs(now - client->time) > TwentyFiveMinutes) {
>>            ^~~
>>            labs
>> xdmauth.c:302:9: warning: absolute value function 'abs' given an argument of 
>> type 'long' but has parameter of type
>> 'int' which
>>      may cause truncation of value [-Wabsolute-value,Semantic Issue]
>>    if (abs(client->time - now) > TwentyMinutes) {
>>        ^
>> xdmauth.c:302:9: note: use function 'labs' instead [Semantic Issue]
>>    if (abs(client->time - now) > TwentyMinutes) {
>>        ^~~
>>        labs
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> os/xdmauth.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/os/xdmauth.c b/os/xdmauth.c
>> index f11cbb9..482bc67 100644
>> --- a/os/xdmauth.c
>> +++ b/os/xdmauth.c
>> @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ XdmClientAuthTimeout(long now)
>>     prev = 0;
>>     for (client = xdmClients; client; client = next) {
>>         next = client->next;
>> -        if (abs(now - client->time) > TwentyFiveMinutes) {
>> +        if (labs(now - client->time) > TwentyFiveMinutes) {
>>             if (prev)
>>                 prev->next = next;
>>             else
>> @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ XdmAuthorizationValidate(unsigned char *plain, int 
>> length,
>>     }
>>     now += clockOffset;
>>     XdmClientAuthTimeout(now);
>> -    if (abs(client->time - now) > TwentyMinutes) {
>> +    if (labs(client->time - now) > TwentyMinutes) {
>>         free(client);
>>         if (reason)
>>             *reason = "Excessive XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 time offset";
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