[LTP] [PATCH] openposix: Remove timer_*/speculative tests for invalid timerid
Martin Doucha
mdoucha@suse.cz
Tue Sep 29 15:09:56 CEST 2026
On 8/13/26 16:46, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> Hi!
> The only concern I have here is that there are UNIX-like OSes that
> actually implement all the optional behavior and in that case these are
> valid tests. AFAIK OpenBSD implements are these "may" clauses that Linux
> implementation ignores completely.
Hi, the behavior was optional until 2013 edition of POSIX[1]. Starting
from 2016 edition[2], the behavior is undefined. The tests are no longer
valid. We should drop them.
[1]
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2013edition/functions/timer_delete.html
[2]
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2016edition/functions/timer_delete.html
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