Re: GHC Select and Time modules - struct timeval

[Hannah Schroeter]

Hallo!

On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:39:10PM +0000, Alex Ferguson wrote:

> Keith Wansbrough:
> > If the Integer is greater than 2^64-1 then simply
> > pass NULL to select(): I think 595 000 years is near enough forever
> > given current operating systems...

> Quincentomillennium bug, anyone?

> ;-)

No.

struct timeval {
        long    tv_sec;
        long    tv_usec;
};

So, on archs where long is 32 bit, we have a 68-years-problem.

Regards, Hannah.