> 
> Hi,
> 
> on Fri, 28 Apr 1995 14:18:33 +0200 Paul Kranenburg wrote 
> concerning "sleep(3)" something like this:
> 
> > Currently, sleep(3) and usleep(3) never return if the process' set of blocked
> > signals happens to include SIGALRM. I'm inclined to believe that this 
> > shouldn't be so; [u]sleep() sets ist own ALRM handler and can therefore
> > enable SIGALRM when sigsuspend() is called.
> 
> Although I can't think of a case, where this would be critical, I'd take
> it to be a bug, if usleep does not return after the specified amount of
> time. And it's quite easy to fix anyway.
> 
This is what I think causes my problem when coming out of X-Windows the
server doesn't shutdown right and to get back into X I have to reboot... :(


Regards,
Neil.
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Neil J. McRae.                                        Demon Internet
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