Re: testing/pre-7 and do_poll()
Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 01:59:58 -0500
According to Linus Torvalds:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > Well, I forgot the (unsigned long) cast, as someone else noted:
> > timeout = ROUND_UP((unsigned long) timeout, 1000/HZ);
> > Otherwise, the code is Just Right.
>
> Hint: HZ is a define - not 100.
> You just ended up dividing by zero on certain architectures.
I didn't think HZ ranged over 1000 in practice, else of course I would
not have written the above.
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Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
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