Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 17:46:51 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: ache@nagual.pp.ru (=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error in sleep ! Message-ID: <199708121546.RAA00378@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970812183136.20846A-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net> from "[______ ______]" at "Aug 12, 97 06:39:14 pm"
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In reply to [______ ______] who wrote:
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> On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, S_ren Schmidt wrote:
>
> > I've noticed sleep is"broken in current..
> > Run the little program at the end, and notice that the program exits
> > the sleep call prematurely if a signal is catched. The remaining
> > sleep period is not resumed after the signal..
> > This works as expected on 2.2.1 and the 10 or so other platforms
> > I've tested sofar...
>
> Hmm. Sleep supposed to exit on _any_ signal per POSIX. Where you find
> 10 platforms which breaks this rule?
Hmm, we don't even use it correctly ourselves, check /bin/sleep !!
I have the fear that it also is the case in other places.
I've checked one more platform, SVR4.2MP it behaves like ours,
but they have fixed their /bin/sleep :)
How on earth did POSIX come up with that behavior ??
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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