> You would get Alpha users to worry about wrap-around in
>about 24.3 days ... (2^31/HZ seconds) No thanks.
Alpha users can' t set a timer for more than 2^32/1024 sec anyway. This is
the only reason of my first thought to use an int.
For this reason using `long timeout' cause on alpha to set _no_ timer if
schedule_timeout() will be recalled with MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT == (~0UL >>
1).
I am asking myself if make sense at all to set a timer with
MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT everywhere. Should not we simply call schedule() with
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE in such cases (without using
schedule_timeout(MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT) ?).
Andrea Arcangeli
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