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Subject: Re: standards/149980: [patch] negative value integer to
	nanosleep(2) should fail with EINVAL
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I do think that the change is not useful. It puts more burden on the
application writers to check for the negative value before making the
syscall. Also, it changes the API.

Please, just close the PR.