Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the highend)

[Magnus Naeslund(t)]

Magnus Naeslund(t) wrote:
> But isn't this kind of code a known buggy way of implementing timeouts?
> Shouldn't it be like:
>
> time_t x = time(0);
> do {
>   ...
> } while (time(0) - x >= TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS);

I meant:
 } while (time(0) - x < TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS);

Also if time_t is signed, that needs to be taken care of.

Magnus - butterfingers

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