Updated discussion of maximum timer value to reflect the fact

that the default jiffy is now 4 milliseconds.
Added a FIXME.

diff --git a/man2/getitimer.2 b/man2/getitimer.2
index 43ab7decb33d4a6d7f7cd3478d79e28ff2803e1b..68f2eeb487dcdc9b14285ef8ab7a5223bf32468d 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/getitimer.2
+++ b/man2/getitimer.2
@@ -149,9 +149,10 @@ representation exceeds MAX_SEC_IN_JIFFIES
 (defined in
 .IR include/linux/jiffies.h ),
 then the timer is silently truncated to this ceiling value.
-On Linux 2.6 on x86 (where a jiffy is 0.001 seconds),
+On Linux/x86 (where, since kerenl 2.6.13,
+the default jiffy is 0.004 seconds),
 this means that the ceiling value for a timer is
-approximately 24.86 days.
+approximately 99.42 days.
 
 On certain systems (including x86),
 Linux kernels before version 2.6.12 have a bug which will produce 
@@ -167,3 +168,6 @@ should fail if a
 value is specified that is outside of the range 0 to 999999.
 However, Linux does not give an error, but instead silently
 adjusts the corresponding seconds value for the timer.
+.\" FIXME . Bugzilla report 25 Apr 2006:
+.\" http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6443
+.\" "setitimer() should reject non-canonical arguments"