The following reply was made to PR bin/34011; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, jdc@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/34011: systat vmstat ignores refresh-interval argument
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:02:14 -0700 (MST)

 On 24-Jul-2006 Julian Coleman wrote:
 >  Thanks for pointing this out.  This is indeed the problem.  Checking on a
 >  Solaris machine with the attached test, the maximum timeout is ~25 seconds.
 
 I would like to state that my FMLI/ETI manual states:
 
 void timeout(int delay);
 void wtimeout(WINDOW *win, int delay);
 
 it states that if delay is negative, the read is blocking, positive,
 nonblocking.  for 0, it is a non-blocking read.
 
 No mention of length, but given that it is an int, I would say having it be a
 char is wrong.
 
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