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bug#7359: sleep 9999999999

From: Michal Svoboda
Subject: bug#7359: sleep 9999999999
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:21:17 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > address@hidden,d1r17733u07 | strace -e nanosleep sleep 9999999999
> > nanosleep({9999999999, 0}, NULL)        = 0

Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with nanosleep({9999999999, 0} ?

The first argument should be time_t, which should not be prone to
something stupid like overflowing at 2 (or 4) billion or so.

Michal Svoboda
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