Bug#720445: procps: watch uses at most 4294s as interval, even if a higher interval is given on the command-line

tag 720445 pending thankyou On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 02:07:47AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > a) Fix the code to allow longer intervals, preferably of arbitrary >length. Hi Axel, thanks for reporting this bug and doing the digging to find the old patch. The upstream git repository now has essent

Bug#720445: procps: watch uses at most 4294s as interval, even if a higher interval is given on the command-line

Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.8-9 Tags: patch upstream Calling "watch -n 7200 command" to call "command" every two hours results in the following top line of watch's output: "Every 4294.0s: command" There are multiple issues in this behaviour: a) Intervals longer than 4294 seconds seem impossib