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Bug ID 6536058
Synopsis alarm(2) passes negative delta to realtime_timeout
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory kernel:syscall
Keywords rtiq_reviewed
Responsible Engineer Narayana Kadoor
Reported Against
Duplicate Of
Introduced In solaris_2.5
Commit to Fix snv_67
Fixed In snv_67
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_67) , solaris_10u5(s10u5_01) (Bug ID:2149998)
Related Bugs 6554533 , 4766208
Submit Date 19-March-2007
Last Update Date 26-July-2007
Description 
alarm(2) passes a negative number to realtime_timeout which causes alarm(2) to return immediately.  This is due to the customer's application passing 2592000 seconds (30 days) and  with hires_tick set to 1.
Work Around 
N/A
Comments 
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