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| author | Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> | 2017-06-30 08:01:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-06-30 08:01:05 (GMT) |
| commit | 729780a810bbcb12b245a1b652302a601fc9f6fd (patch) | |
| tree | 98182b9933e15696fbf1dc97364f6e048c219600 /Misc | |
| parent | 42bc8beadd49f60cc52fdc397897b3bd81640406 (diff) | |
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bpo-30807: signal.setitimer() may disable the timer by mistake (#2493)
* bpo-30807: signal.setitimer() may disable the timer by mistake
* Add NEWS blurb
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-06-29-22-04-44.bpo-30807.sLtjY-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-06-29-22-04-44.bpo-30807.sLtjY-.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ce6f48a --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-06-29-22-04-44.bpo-30807.sLtjY-.rst @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +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. |