For what it's worth, I also tried Miguel's ctime-hang.c on both a Sarge i386 and a Sid amd64 machine with 2.6 kernels and can reproduce the hang in 10 of 10 attempts.
bye, -christian- $ strace -e trace=\!time ./a.out ... set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0x401522a0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 munmap(0x40018000, 20908) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8048464, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 1000}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0 brk(0) = 0x804a000 brk(0x806b000) = 0x806b000 brk(0) = 0x806b000 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=837, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40018000 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- futex(0x4014fcec, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL <unfinished ...> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]