cosmic timeout

[Jarek Czekalski]

Is anyone able to give a reasonable explanation to this part of 
process.c (repeated 2 times):

114031       eggert@ |       timeout = make_timespec (100000, 0);

This is 100000 seconds, more than a day. I guess that freezes my Emacs 
when I play with a vertical scroll bar.

Jarek