Re: xnanosleep range with 64 bit time_t

[Dmitry V. Levin]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:13:35AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I have installed the following patch to gnulib
[...]
> 2006-08-30  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
> 
>       Work around a bug in both the Linux and SunOS 64-bit kernels:
>       nanosleep mishandles sleeps for longer than 2**31 seconds.
>       Problem reported by Frank v Waveren in
>       <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-08/msg00298.html>.
[...]
>       * modules/nanosleep (Depends-on): Add gettime.
[...]
> Index: modules/gettime
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/modules/gettime,v
> retrieving revision 1.6
> diff -p -u -r1.6 gettime
> --- modules/gettime   2 Mar 2006 07:36:41 -0000       1.6
> +++ modules/gettime   31 Aug 2006 06:58:38 -0000
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ m4/clock_time.m4
>  m4/gettime.m4
>  
>  Depends-on:
> +gettime
>  gettimeofday
>  timespec
>  extensions

modules/nanosleep was updated about 2 months ago, but
modules/gettime still depends on itself.


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