newbie question

[Ra Chen <Ra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This may be off-topic but someone may be willing to help me with this small question here.

Does Linux kernel aaccept a very very long timer?
To be more exact,
does mod_timer() accept an "expires" parameter whose value is somewhat greater than 0x80000000?
Looking at the code (2.4.5, timer.c, line 143-145),
it seems an expiration time that large is considered to be a special case.

Could somebody shed some light on why it is handled this way?

Thanks

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Ra Chen
Siemens Telecommunication Systems Ltd.
R&D Engineer
E-mail: ra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: 886-2-2518-6539
Fax: 886-2-2505-3866
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