Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 19:01:25 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, peter@spinner.dialix.com Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen sleep.c Message-ID: <199705180901.TAA31228@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Hmm. Perhaps install a temporary dummy SIGALRM handler in the sleep.c stub >so that it doesn't die if there isn't one. The old setitimer way doesn't >mess with alarm(2), using nanosleep() wont change that. Why would a program generate alarms without installing an alarm handler? Perhaps buggy programs do install one but expect it not to be invoked during sleep(). Bruce
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