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On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> I do not know about DoS on timers (did not follow the thread), but I could 
> easily implement it here, by capping the counter to some value, and return 
> POLLERR in poll().

For capping I mean, I won't re-arm the timer if ticks exceeded it ...


- Davide