[PATCH] Fix debug message in gencache

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 02:49:01PM +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Thursday, January 17, 2019 2:12:59 PM CET Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 02:05:27PM +0100, Andreas Schneider via samba-
> technical wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > here is a small patch to fix a debug message.
> > 
> > Looks good, RB+.
> > 
> > Question: Why not cast to time_t?
> 
> The value can be negative so we should use a signed integer space for the 
> subtraction. Currently we do it in time_t and then cast it to int which 
> results in a message:
> 
>  timeout (-1547089989 seconds in the past)
> 
> which translates into roughly 17000 days. This is a bit much ...

Ok, right. Integer arithmetic is black art...

Volker

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