> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 08:32:32AM +0200, Alexander Burger wrote: >> That's too bad! If poll(2) uses only 32 bits for the timeout, the maximum is >> 49 >> days (as opposed to the 292 million years (292MY) in 64 bits). > > Not even that! For signed 32 bits it is only 24 days :( > > Should I change the design of waitFd() to use only 32 bits? > > âº/ A!ex
A workaround is to poll ceil(N/(2^32)) times. By the way what happens when (timeout > 292MY)? > The man page of poll() says "Specifying a negative value in timeout means an > infinite timeout". -2 or any other negative number does no harm. The OSX man page is different. Yes, only -1 means infinite timeout. I'm also trying to fix the parser/repl but that would be on another thread. -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
