lib/xnanosleep.c currently assumes nanosleep works with any value that can be fit into the struct timespec. For gnu+linux on a platform with 64 bit longs, this isn't true (it currently doesn't even return and error but just silently integer-overflows, but I've submitted a patch to make it error).
I haven't checked how other operating systems handle this (do any others even have 64 bit time_t's?), but the follow patch stops it from failing silently on linux, and if and when my patch is accepted, it stops it from erroring. If there are other operating systems the coreutils run on that handle 64 bit time_t's properly this should be "#ifdef linux"-ed, but I'll leave that to someone who knows more about the build system. --- coreutils/lib/xnanosleep.c.old 2006-08-27 10:49:11.000000000 +0200 +++ coreutils/lib/xnanosleep.c 2006-08-27 11:40:25.000000000 +0200 @@ -34,9 +34,10 @@ #include "intprops.h" #include "timespec.h" +#include "minmax.h" #ifndef TIME_T_MAX -# define TIME_T_MAX TYPE_MAXIMUM (time_t) +# define TIME_T_MAX MIN(TYPE_MAXIMUM (time_t), (~(1<<31))) #endif /* Sleep until the time (call it WAKE_UP_TIME) specified as -- Frank v Waveren Key fingerprint: BDD7 D61E [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5D39 CF05 4BFC F57A Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/468D62C8 FA00 7D51 468D 62C8
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