Does the mq_timedreceive() fully implement the POSIX specification?

[K K]

Hi Bernd,

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch <
bernd at petrovitsch.priv.at> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 10:30 +0800, K K wrote:
> [....]
> > I am doing POSIX test on linux. And for mq_timedreceive() in POSIX spec
> > 2008 Issue 7, Line 43787:
> >
> >   The validity of the abstime parameter need not be checked if a
> >   message can be removed from the message queue immediately.
> >
> > But when I run test case mq_timedreceive/10-2 of POSIX suite (can be
> viewed
> > at :
> >
> http://ltp.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ltp/ltp.git;a=blob;f=testcases/open_posix_testsuite/conformance/interfaces/mq_timedreceive/10-2.c;h=49ee4f243fc5046a965a551650d8697217faac35;hb=HEAD
> ),
> > mq_timedreceive() could get the message without wait, but the timeout is
> > still validated.
> >
> > Do we intend to do so, or the implementation needs update?
>
> I'm not a native English speaker but there is IMHO no problem as the
> above quoted part of POSIX simply does not require the check in that
> case. But it doesn't forbid the check.
>

That's my misunderstanding.
Thanks for your reply.

Regards,
Kai



>
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