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* setitimer and timeval truncation
@ 2004-08-29 14:43 Simon Brackenboro'
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From: Simon Brackenboro' @ 2004-08-29 14:43 UTC (permalink / 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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