Re: Some strangeness---

Allanah Myles (dossy@sotm.rutgers.edu)
Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:49:02 -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).

I'll have to examine strace() output really carefully, but I just know
that when it tries to sleep(1), it loops infinately at that point.

void main(void)
{
printf("foo\n");
sleep(1);
printf("bar\n");
}

Never see the bar. Guess I must have drunk too much.

-Dossy

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