Bug 740682 - sys/time.h claims settimeofday's first param couldn't be NULL, which is not correct
Summary: sys/time.h claims settimeofday's first param couldn't be NULL, which is not c...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glibc
Version: 16
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Assignee: Jeff Law
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2011-09-22 22:36 UTC by Lennart Poettering
Modified: 2016-11-24 15:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-01-26 20:38:11 UTC
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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.
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