I can see the usefulness of the sanity check limit to non-negative timeouts but the arbitrary upper limit seems like a bad idea. Maybe it’s too late to change now — there may be some existing code that depends on this. At the very least the behaviour should be noted in the application developers guide.
On Jun 7, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]> wrote:
On 06/07/2017 06:50 PM, Eric Norum wrote:
Why are timeouts for things like epicsEventWaitWithTImeout() limited to 1 hour? This is for R3.15.4, but I suspect the code is the same in lots of versions.
Since at least 2000 (first occurrence I find). The commit message doesn't give any clues.