[Python-checkins] [3.7] bpo-34263 Cap timeout submitted to epoll/select etc. to one day. (GH-8532) (GH-8586)

[Yury Selivanov]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/172a81e42bc30da1bd4027db9cd3b6172469f7fe
commit: 172a81e42bc30da1bd4027db9cd3b6172469f7fe
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Yury Selivanov <yury at magic.io>
date: 2018-07-31T11:29:07-04:00
summary:

[3.7] bpo-34263 Cap timeout submitted to epoll/select etc. to one day. (GH-8532) (GH-8586)

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-28-17-00-36.bpo-34263.zUfRsu.rst
M Lib/asyncio/base_events.py

diff --git a/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py b/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py
index dc0ca3f02b9b..a79e123e5113 100644
--- a/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py
+++ b/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@
 
 _HAS_IPv6 = hasattr(socket, 'AF_INET6')
 
+# Maximum timeout passed to select to avoid OS limitations
+MAXIMUM_SELECT_TIMEOUT = 24 * 3600
+
 
 def _format_handle(handle):
     cb = handle._callback
@@ -1702,7 +1705,7 @@ def _run_once(self):
         elif self._scheduled:
             # Compute the desired timeout.
             when = self._scheduled[0]._when
-            timeout = max(0, when - self.time())
+            timeout = min(max(0, when - self.time()), MAXIMUM_SELECT_TIMEOUT)
 
         if self._debug and timeout != 0:
             t0 = self.time()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-28-17-00-36.bpo-34263.zUfRsu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-28-17-00-36.bpo-34263.zUfRsu.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..799463b59163
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-28-17-00-36.bpo-34263.zUfRsu.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+asyncio's event loop will not pass timeouts longer than one day to
+epoll/select etc.