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Date:	Tue, 9 May 2000 12:02:54 +0200
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From:	Love <lha AT stacken DOT kth DOT se>
To:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	setitimer warps

Settimer warps for too large values of itimer.it_value.tv_sec

Appended program shows the problem.

  : DATAN ; gcc -o getitimer getitimer.c
  : DATAN ; ./getitimer
  Alarm clock

This patch should fix the problem:

Index: window.cc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/cygwin/window.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 window.cc
--- winsup/cygwin/window.cc	2000/03/07 05:33:09	1.3
+++ winsup/cygwin/window.cc	2000/05/09 09:49:02
@@ -154,6 +154,12 @@
       set_errno (EINVAL);
       return -1;
     }
+  /* Check if we will wrap */
+  if (itv.it_value.tv_sec >= UINT_MAX / 1000)
+    {
+      set_errno (EINVAL);
+      return -1;
+    }
   if (timer_active)
     {
       KillTimer (gethwnd(), timer_active);


Thanks,
Love


------ getitimer.c -----

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <limits.h>

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    struct itimerval itimer;
    
    itimer.it_value.tv_sec     = INT_MAX; 
    itimer.it_value.tv_usec    = 0;
    itimer.it_interval.tv_sec  = 0;
    itimer.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
  
    if (setitimer (ITIMER_REAL, &itimer, NULL) != 0) {
      fprintf (stderr, "setitimer failed\n");
      exit (1);
    }
    sleep (10);
    return 0;
}

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