CVS commit: syssrc/sys/kern

[Christos Zoulas <christos%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    syssrc
Committed By:   christos
Date:           Tue Nov 13 00:34:21 UTC 2001

Modified Files:
        syssrc/sys/kern: kern_time.c

Log Message:
PR/8657: z%rentaboat.se@localhost: alarm takes more seconds that it can handle.

This is a followup to PR/14558.

    - itimerfix(9) limited the number of seconds to 100M, before I changed
      it to 1000M for PR/14558.
    - nanosleep(2) documents a limit of 1000M seconds.
    - setitimer(2), select(2), and other library functions that indirectly
      use setitimer(2) for example alarm(3) don't specify a limit.

So it only seems appropriate that any positive number of seconds in
struct timeval should be accepted by any code that uses itimerfix(9)
directly, except nanosleep(2) which should check for 1000M seconds
manually. This changes makes the manual pages of select(2), nanosleep(2),
setitimer(2), and alarm(3) consistent with the code.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -r1.58 -r1.59 syssrc/sys/kern/kern_time.c

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