Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 1999 00:30:56 +0300 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Re: select() clobbering the timeout |
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On Mon, 10 May 1999, Roger Espel Llima wrote: > > tv_sec = 20936484, tv_usec = 550000 > > tahallah[alex]:/home/alex/src/Linux/timeout > uname -a > Linux tahallah 2.2.7 #20 SMP Thu Apr 29 21:26:02 BST 1999 i686 > tahallah[alex]:/home/alex/src/Linux/timeout > timeout 2 0 > tv_sec = 2, tv_usec = 0 > tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 0 > > Seems to behave differently in 2.2.x kernels.
But did you set the jiffies value to > 2^31, since this is a jiffies handling related overflow in sys_times()? (I don't suppose you have over 248 day uptime considering the time of the compilation of the kernel of yours.)
See
http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9904_04/msg00740.html http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9904_04/msg00764.html http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9904_04/msg00880.html http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9904_04/msg00901.html
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