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authorAntoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr>2017-06-30 08:54:24 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-06-30 08:54:24 (GMT)
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[3.6] bpo-30807: signal.setitimer() may disable the timer by mistake (GH-2493) (#2497)
* bpo-30807: signal.setitimer() may disable the timer by mistake * Add NEWS blurb (cherry picked from commit 729780a810bbcb12b245a1b652302a601fc9f6fd)
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+signal.setitimer() may disable the timer when passed a tiny value.
+
+Tiny values (such as 1e-6) are valid non-zero values for setitimer(), which
+is specified as taking microsecond-resolution intervals. However, on some
+platform, our conversion routine could convert 1e-6 into a zero interval,
+therefore disabling the timer instead of (re-)scheduling it.