On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:15:50 +0200 Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, enh wrote: > > the user-observable difference between glibc/POSIX and NetBSD is > > for alarm(0xffffffff). > > 0xffffffff seconds is about 136 years. I suggest that > you avoid trying to pass such long timeouts to the > alarm function. As an aside, if you genuinely need your process to run for 136 years you may also run into portability issues regarding the size of time_t. -- 3072D/F3A66B3A Julian Yon (2012 General Use) <pgp.2012%jry.me@localhost>
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