Re: select() clobbering the timeout

phazer (phazer@battlemech.ml.org)
Tue, 11 May 1999 23:08:37 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 11 May 1999, Alex Buell wrote:

>On Wed, 12 May 1999, Ville Herva wrote:
>
>> 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.)
>
>Oh! I thought this particular bug had been fixed.

Don't forget that his kernel is 248 days old ;)
It is probably fixed in a newer kernel..

>Cheers,
>Alex
>--
>"A mind opened by new ideas can never return to its original limits"
>
>http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk

-phazer

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