[ECOS] lib/timeout.c

[Jonathan Larmour]

tb wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The TCP/IP stack comes with timeout.c code. In testing our ethernet driver
> and the TCP/IP stack we've noticed that timeouts sometimes get screwed up.
> It seems that when timeout() gets called while a previous timeout is still
> pending the computation of min_delta results in negative values and from
> that point on the timeout queue is broken. As a result the TCP/IP resources
> don't get released and opening new connections fails.
> 
> I haven't found any clues in the archives. Any ideas? PS: We are using
> the released net package, not the CVS one.

This code has been radically changed since the released net package. I
recommend you move to CVS to try and see if it is fixed there.

Jifl
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