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Date:      Sat, 5 Sep 1998 21:58:19 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>
Cc:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, John Birrell <jb@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen sleep.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809052157410.796-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809051816.LAA22705@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     The sleep code is totally broken in regards to its comparisons.  The
>     argument is an unsigned int, but values are stored in time_t which is
>     currently a signed long.  The code, as it stands, is not clean if either
>     time_t changes from signed to unsigned, or if time_t changes from a 32 bit
>     value to a 64 bit value.  Since there is no harm in doing multiple 
>     sleeps, why not just fix the code?  We no tv_sec must be at least large
>     enough to hold INT_MAX, so:

Looks fine to me.  If Andrey agrees, why don't you commit this.

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