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From: kwmc@hou5d.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: sleep()
Message-ID: <567@hou5d.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 15:28:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  6 15:28:19 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 16:37:58 EDT
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Regarding a bug in sleep. There is yet another bug in that on a heavily
loaded system it is possible for the alarm to go off before the pause is ever
entered.  Thus sleep(1) on a heavily loaded system COULD sleep forever.  This
happened here, and we reinstated sleep as a system call in itself to fix
the problem. Sleep used to be a system call in the dim and distant past. I feel
that it still should be.
			Ken Cochran       hou5d!kwmc