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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2000 15:20:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/18909: select(2) timeout limited to 100000000 seconds
Message-ID:  <200005302220.PAA47200@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/18909; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, archie@whistle.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/18909: select(2) timeout limited to 100000000 seconds
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 23:15:20 +0100

 Here is what "The Single UNIX  Specification, Version 2" that I
 downloaded about a year ago says:
 
      Implementations may place limitations on the maximum timeout
      interval supported. On all implementations, the maximum timeout
      interval supported will be at least 31 days. If the timeout
      argument specifies a timeout interval greater than the
      implementation-dependent maximum value, the maximum value will be
      used as the actual timeout value. Implementations may also place
      limitations on the granularity of timeout intervals. If the
      requested timeout interval requires a finer granularity than the
      implementation supports, the actual timeout interval will be
      rounded up to the next supported value.
 
 So it looks the implimentation doesn't agree with this, and the
 man page should probably say what the max timeout is.
 
 (Excerpt is from http://www.opennc.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/select.html).
 
 	David.
 


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