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| -rw-r--r-- | src/src/exim.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/src/exim.c b/src/src/exim.c index 517b5435e..51daa5576 100644 --- a/src/src/exim.c +++ b/src/src/exim.c @@ -267,6 +267,10 @@ will wait for ever, so we panic in this instance. (There was a case of this when a bug in a function that calls milliwait() caused it to pass invalid data. That's when I added the check. :-) +We assume it to be not worth sleeping for under 100us; this value will +require revisiting as hardware advances. This avoids the issue of +a zero-valued timer setting meaning "never fire". + Argument: an itimerval structure containing the interval Returns: nothing */ @@ -276,6 +280,9 @@ milliwait(struct itimerval *itval) { sigset_t sigmask; sigset_t old_sigmask; + +if (itval->it_value.tv_usec < 100 && itval->it_value.tv_sec == 0) + return; (void)sigemptyset(&sigmask); /* Empty mask */ (void)sigaddset(&sigmask, SIGALRM); /* Add SIGALRM */ (void)sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &sigmask, &old_sigmask); /* Block SIGALRM */ |