> >Synopsis:       usleep() is used the wrong way in Wget 1.9.1 pkg

>  	Unfortunately, the good people has not read usleep(3), which
> 	says you must not call usleep with a value greater than 10**6.
> 	Instead their lines goes like:
> 		
> 		usleep(1000000L * opt.wait);
> 
> 	which we but of course honor with a return value of -1 and an
> 	errno set at EINVAL. They do not check it though... Net result:
> 	no sleeping.

An alternative is to change the:
	usleep(1000000L * timeout);
to
	poll(0, 0, 1000L * timeout);

Which has the added advantage that isn't allowed to be implemented
in terms of the alarm timer and SIGALRM.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk