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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: bin/4259: sleep(3) broken for large values
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>Number:         4259
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sleep(3) broken for large values
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 10 02:00:02 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     J Wunsch
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Environment:

-current as of yesterday.

>Description:

sleep(3) is now broken for arguments > 100000000 seconds (threshold
found empirically); it returns immediately in this case.  Among
others, this breaks perl(1)'s `sleep' instruction when being used
without any argument (since this will call sleep(0xffffffff)).

>How-To-Repeat:

perl -e sleep

This is not supposed to finish in the forseeable future, but
immediately returns you to the command prompt.

>Fix:
	
Not yet known.


>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: