JDK 9 RFR of 8165000: Selector.select(timeout) throws IOException when timeout is a large long

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Sep 1, 2016, at 3:54 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

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> On 01/09/2016 08:28, Langer, Christoph wrote:
>> Hi Brian,
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>> I'm wondering, if we knew that the maximum accepted value for timeout is 0x7fffffff, then we should probably cap the timeout before calling kevent?
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> I agree, it the time out is clamped then it can be done in KQueueArrayWrapper.poll before kqueue is called.

Values much larger than 0x7fffffff in fact *are* accepted which is why I chose this version but I can change it to clamp to 0x7fffffff and remove the kevent() retry.

Thanks,

Brian