Re: [PATCH] upload-pack: keep poll(2)'s timeout to -1

> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 03:19:11PM +0000, Edward Thomson wrote:
>
>> Keep poll's timeout at -1 when uploadpack.keepalive = 0, instead of
>> setting it to -1000, since some pedantic old systems (eg HP-UX) and
>> the gnulib compat/poll will treat only -1 as the valid value for
>> an infinite timeout.
>
> That makes sense, and POSIX only specifies the behavior for -1 anyway.
> The patch itself looks obviously correct. Thanks.
>
> Since we're now translating the keepalive value, and since there's no
> way to set it to "0" (nor would that really have any meaning), I guess
> we could switch the internal "no keepalive" value to 0, and do:
>
>   ret = poll(pfd, pollsize, keepalive ? 1000 * keepalive : -1);
>
> which would let us avoid setting it to -1 in some other spots.  I dunno
> if that actually makes a real difference to maintainability, though.
> Either way:
>
>   Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>
> -Peff