Varun Chandramohan wrote: > Oliver Hartkopp wrote: > >>>>I don't think you should round down timeout values. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>>Can you elaborate on that? As per the RFC of MIB ,we need only seconds >>>granularity. Taking that as the case i dont understand why round down >>>should not be done? >>> >>> >> >>When you like to create any timeout based on your calculated value, you >>might run into the problem that your calculated value is set to _zero_ >>even if there was "some time" before the conversion. This might probably >>not what you indented to get. >> >>So what about rounding up with >> >>return (tv->tv_sec + (tv->tv_usec + 999999)/1000000); >> >>??? >> >> > > This can done. Is this what you were ref to me, Patrick?
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