On Tue, 29 May 2012, Stefan Weil wrote: > Yes, we could set the upper limit to LONG_MAX seconds for some > timers, but I did not want to have a dependency of the > upper limit on sizeof(long). The function win32_rearm_timer > only allows 4294967 seconds. Is there any reason why we > should allow timers which expire after more than 11 days > (1000000 seconds are about 11 days)? If there is none, > 1000000 seconds would be a good upper limit for most timers > (maybe also for Darwin). mm_rearm_timer is the only timer > which then still needs its own upper limit.
If 1000000 works for Darwin, then I think it is a good idea.