Re: Some strangeness---

David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu)
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 19:40:55 -0500


From: Allanah Myles <dossy@sotm.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 18:13:25 -0500 (EST)

sleep() doesn't work, it just hangs the program (strace gives output
that looks like it's stuckin a SIGALRM loop)

Check the strace() output to make sure libc is calling setitemer()
right before the sigpause(). This is the "usual" libc implementation
of sleep(foo).

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@caip.rutgers.edu