2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ev.pod b/ev.pod
index 57c318e..0146723 100644
--- a/ev.pod
+++ b/ev.pod
@@ -3584,7 +3584,7 @@ implementations for some libevent functions (such as logging, which is not
 supported). It will also not define any of the structs usually found in
 F<event.h> that are not directly supported by the libev core alone.
 
-In stanbdalone mode, libev will still try to automatically deduce the
+In standalone mode, libev will still try to automatically deduce the
 configuration, but has to be more conservative.
 
 =item EV_USE_MONOTONIC
diff --git a/ev_epoll.c b/ev_epoll.c
index c4f1679..04acd98 100644
--- a/ev_epoll.c
+++ b/ev_epoll.c
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ epoll_poll (EV_P_ ev_tstamp timeout)
   int i;
   int eventcnt;
   
+  /* epoll wait times cannot be larger than (LONG_MAX - 999UL) / HZ msecs, which is below */
+  /* the default libev max wait time, however. */
   EV_RELEASE_CB;
   eventcnt = epoll_wait (backend_fd, epoll_events, epoll_eventmax, (int)ceil (timeout * 1000.));
   EV_ACQUIRE_CB;