From: "Simon Brackenboro'" <sb-kernel@zymic.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: setitimer and timeval truncation
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:43:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040829144338.GA14679@lamity.org> (raw)
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I would expect setitimer to work over the range of time allowed by
struct timeval.
This is not always the case as as timeval is truncated
in timeval_to_jiffies to MAX_SEC_IN_JIFFIES (~25 days in my case).
Is this right ?
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sb
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