bug#7359: sleep 9999999999

[Pádraig Brady]

On 10/11/10 18:20, Matthew Bachmann wrote:
> Existing stuff:
> 
> address@hidden,d1r17733u07 | strace -e nanosleep sleep 9999999999
> nanosleep({9999999999, 0}, NULL)        = 0
> address@hidden,d1r17733u07 | rpm -qa | grep coreutils
> policycoreutils-1.33.12-14.2.el5
> coreutils-5.97-19.el5
> 
> With download you pointed me at:
> 
> address@hidden,d1r17733u07 | strace -e nanosleep src/sleep 9999999999
> nanosleep({4233600, 0},  <unfinished ...>
> address@hidden,d1r17733u07 | 
> 
> I ctrl-c'ed it because it appeared to be actually sleeping instead of 
> returning immediately.  So yeah, it looks like it works fine with newer stuff.

Right, that confirms that it's sleeping for 49 days at a time.
I.E. the existing immediately detectable workaround is in place.

cheers,
Pádraig.