> Hi
>
> Anybody who knows about this one?
>
> Jes
> ------- start of forwarded message -------
> From: Kars de Jong <jongk@cs.utwente.nl>
> To: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch>
> Subject: Serious bug in recent Linux kernels
> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 02:33:12 +0100
>
> Hi,
>
> There is a serious bug in recent kernels with the timeout of the poll()
> system call. The calculation to turn the timeout value from milliseconds
> into whatever schedule_timeout() expects is wrong. The following happened
> when I read my mail with mutt. I use a development glibc (2.1.106) which
> uses poll() when it is available in the kernel. As soon as I opened read a
> mail message my screen got spammed with hundreds of lines saying:
>
> schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value f3333335 from 00024c0e
I just reported and fixed it ages ago. I don't know why my global fix not
went into the kernel.
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