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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:44:49 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange select(2) misbehaviour when linked with -pthread 
Message-ID:  <200107261544.f6QFinw03993@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:59:31 BST." <20010726115931.A93134@walton.maths.tcd.ie> 
References:  <20010726115931.A93134@walton.maths.tcd.ie>  <3B5EA985.458B39B7@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <20010726115931.A93134@walton.maths.tcd.ie> David Malone writes:
: Or don't work as the case may be ;-) Posix doesn't actually require
: select to be able to deal with large wait times (I think 31 days was
: the figure I found in the SUSv2 spec). Have a look at:

31 days, interestingly enough, is very close to the amount of time it
takes for a 32 bit counter to wrap in milliseconds.  Oh, wait, that's
49 days and a little bit.

Warner

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