Re: select/poll bug?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 08:18:37PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> select is 100% portable in terms of how it is used by dhcpcd.
> poll itself is NOT suitable as the timeout cannot handle a DHCP lease of 
> uint32_t seconds on 32-bit platforms.

Huh? I don't understand why poll should not be able to handle the same
time frame. select doesn't allow more than 31bit for time_t either.

Joerg