Re: [PATCH v2] compat: Add another rudimentary poll() emulation

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Albert Dvornik wrote:

quoted

For the general case, you'd want
       tv.tv_sec = timeout / 1000;
       tv.tv_usec = 1000 * (timeout % 1000);

Thanks for the catch.  Actually, it is not so unlikely that someone
would ask the autocorrect to wait longer than a second.

Good point, I take back what I said. =)

On Linux this is not an issue, but maybe Interix cares.  Posix is
vague and only says "the timeout period is given in seconds and
microseconds", staying silent on what the range of valid values is.

Some traditional UNIXes are actually picky about the usec range, or at
least used to be (I seem to recall BSD and/or Solaris, but I really
don't remember for sure, this was a long time ago).

--bert