Here's what I'm running: m...@ita1bbx40,d1r17733u07 | uname -a Linux ita1bbx40 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:41:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux m...@ita1bbx40,d1r17733u07 | cat /etc/issue CentOS release 5.3 (Final) Kernel \r on an \m
m...@ita1bbx40,d1r17733u07 | I'm in a large shared environment where I can't upgrade sleep. I just wanted to bring this to your attention, I can work around and don't need a fix. Thanks. -Matt On Nov 9, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/09/2010 12:31 PM, Matthew Bachmann wrote: >> sleep called with very big numbers returns immediately with success >> >> -Matt >> >> m...@ita1bbx40,d1r17733u07 | date; sleep 9999999999 && echo success; date; >> sleep --version >> Tue Nov 9 14:31:04 EST 2010 >> success >> Tue Nov 9 14:31:04 EST 2010 >> sleep (GNU coreutils) 5.97 > > That's rather old. Can you repeat it with the latest stable release of > 8.6? Meanwhile, I'm wondering if your setup is a duplicate of this report: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-11/msg00011.html > > although it's hard to say, since you didn't provide any information > about what platform and kernel version you tested on. > > -- > Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org >
