setitimer and timeval truncation
From: Simon Brackenboro'
Date: Sun Aug 29 2004 - 09:49:07 EST
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I would expect setitimer to work over the range of time allowed by
struct timeval.
This is not always the case as as timeval is truncated
in timeval_to_jiffies to MAX_SEC_IN_JIFFIES (~25 days in my case).
Is this right ?
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sb
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