Bug 740682

Summary:	sys/time.h claims settimeofday's first param couldn't be NULL, which is not correct
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jeff Law <law>
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Description Lennart Poettering 2011-09-22 22:36:37 UTC

Invoking settimeofday() with the first param as NULL is a valid operation, in order to change the kernel timezone (and we use that in systemd). This is documented in the man page, but the header file claims with __nonnull ((1)) that the first param couldn't be null.

$ rpm -qf /usr/include/sys/time.h 
glibc-headers-2.14.90-9.x86_64

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2011-09-22 22:37:30 UTC

this creates all kinds of warnings in static analysers such as coverity.

Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-11-14 19:15:19 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.