CVS commit: src/bin/sleep

["Robert Elz" <kre%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    src
Committed By:   kre
Date:           Sat Jan 26 15:19:08 UTC 2019

Modified Files:
        src/bin/sleep: sleep.1 sleep.c

Log Message:
Adjust the way the arg string is parsed in the "not entirely
integer" case, so we avoid adjusting the locale of sleep,
and generally be more reliable and simpler.

In addition, deal with weirdness in nanosleep() when the
interval gets long, by avoiding using it.  In this version
when the sleep interval < 10000 seconds, we use nanosleep()
as before, for delays longer than that we use sleep() instead,
and ignore any fractional seconds.

We avoid overflow problems here by not bothering to sleep
at all for delays longer than 135 years (approx) and simply
pause() instead.   That sleep never terminates in such a
case is unlikely to ever be observed.

This commit makes no decision on the question of whether
the arg should be interpreted in the locale of the user,
or always in the C locale.   That is for another day.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.24 -r1.25 src/bin/sleep/sleep.1
cvs rdiff -u -r1.25 -r1.26 src/bin/sleep/sleep.c

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