From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!research!rob Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: xxx Article-I.D.: research.277 Posted: Tue Aug 3 16:33:44 1982 Received: Wed Aug 4 03:28:39 1982 there is a bug in the version 7 and derivative user-level sleep routines. because the structure `jmp' is static, recursive calls to sleep, which can occur if, for example, a signal occurs during a sleep, will behave erroneously. in my case, sleep went into an infinite loop. my fix was to not call sleep recursively, but others may care enough to come up with a fix.