On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 11:15:50 -0500, Scott Cheloha wrote: > Neither are arbitrary. > > The current maximum of one hundred million seconds is based on the old > nanosleep(2) limit prior to the 6.5 release. It was a documented > limit; see the manpage from the 6.4 release: > > http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.4/nanosleep.2 > > setitimer(2) accepts intervals up to UINT_MAX seconds. This is not > documented yet, but I have a rewrite for getitimer.2 in the works. > The kernel enforces it in itimerfix():
I see. OK millert@ - todd
