Bug#606618: glib2.0: g_timeout_add() cannot handle very large timeouts

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 15 février 2011 à 09:40 +0000, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a
écrit : 
> forwarded 606618 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642052
> tags 606618 + upstream fixed-upstream pending
> thanks
> 
> On 06/01/11 20:47, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> >>> 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:
> >>
> >> Any reason you don't use g_timeout_add_seconds for large timeouts?
> > 
> > I was just copycatting what syslong-ng did. I can reproduce this bug with
> > g_timeout_add_seconds, too.
> 
> Fixed upstream, will be fixed in 2.28.1.

Jakub, do you need this fix to be backported to lenny?

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