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@vstinner vstinner commented Oct 1, 2021

WaitForSingleObject() accepts timeout in milliseconds in the range
[0; 0xFFFFFFFE] (DWORD type). INFINITE value (0xFFFFFFFF) means no
timeout. 0xFFFFFFFE milliseconds is around 49.7 days.

PY_TIMEOUT_MAX is (0xFFFFFFFE * 1000) milliseconds on Windows, around
49.7 days.

Partially revert commit 37b8294.

https://bugs.python.org/issue41710

WaitForSingleObject() accepts timeout in milliseconds in the range
[0; 0xFFFFFFFE] (DWORD type). INFINITE value (0xFFFFFFFF) means no
timeout. 0xFFFFFFFE milliseconds is around 49.7 days.

PY_TIMEOUT_MAX is (0xFFFFFFFE * 1000) milliseconds on Windows, around
49.7 days.

Partially revert commit 37b8294.
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vstinner commented Oct 1, 2021

See #28672 (comment) for details about the timeout limit.

@vstinner vstinner merged commit 98d2827 into python:main Oct 1, 2021
@vstinner vstinner deleted the timeout_ms_max branch October 1, 2021 11:03
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