[bug #16913] sleep fails to detect overflow on amd64 / linux 2.6

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                 Summary: sleep fails to detect overflow on amd64 / linux 2.6
                 Project: GNU Core Utilities
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Thursday 06/22/2006 at 14:54 UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open

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Details:


sleep 10000000000  -> returns immediately with exit code 0
sleep 1000000000   -> sleeps
sleep 100000000000 -> sleeps

Not really sane amounts of seconds to sleep but on the other hand there is
some code in xnanosleep.c to handle overflow conditions.

More details about the underlying bug in nanosleep() in 

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=374983








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