glib2.0: g_timeout_add() cannot handle very large timeouts

[Jakub Wilk]

reassign 606618 libglib2.0-0 2.27.4-1
retitle 606618 glib2.0: g_timeout_add() cannot handle very large timeouts
affects 606618 syslog-ng
thanks

* Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org>, 2010-12-10, 13:36:
>I have "stats_freq(86400)" in my syslog-ng.conf, and it used to work 
>fine until I upgraded libglib2.0-0 from 2.24.2-1 to 2.27.4-1. 
>Apparently statistics are now logged every 8m30s (rather than every 
>24h, as I requested).

I turns out this is a bug in glib. The attached minimal test program 
should go ping every ~24 hours, and it apparently does with glib 
2.24.2-1, but not with 2.27.4-1:

$ gcc -Wall -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include/ test.c -o test -lglib-2.0
$ ./test
Ping interval: 85900.00 s
PING (0.66 s)
PING (0.66 s)
PING (0.66 s)
[...and so on...]


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libglib2.0-0 depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-7       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libpcre3                  8.02-1.1       Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libselinux1               2.0.96-1       SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.5.dfsg-1 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages libglib2.0-0 recommends:
pn  libglib2.0-data               <none>     (no description available)
ii  shared-mime-info              0.80-2     FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

-- 
Jakub Wilk
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