Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1.1?] qemu_rearm_alarm_timer: do not call rearm if the next deadline is INT64_MAX

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Tue, 29 May 2012, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Yes, we could set the upper limit to LONG_MAX seconds for some
> timers, but I did not want to have a dependency of the
> upper limit on sizeof(long). The function win32_rearm_timer
> only allows 4294967 seconds. Is there any reason why we
> should allow timers which expire after more than 11 days
> (1000000 seconds are about 11 days)? If there is none,
> 1000000 seconds would be a good upper limit for most timers
> (maybe also for Darwin). mm_rearm_timer is the only timer
> which then still needs its own upper limit.

If 1000000 works for Darwin, then I think it is a good idea.