Dan Mick wrote:
[CC:'ing ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org]
> Someone just noticed that sleep hangs if the network is down.

Can you send a stacktrace of the hanging "sleep", please ?

> because, of course, it's doing a nameservice lookup.  Of course sleep is.  Why
> wouldn't it?

Uhm... ksh93 has builtin networking functionality for UDP/TCP/SCTP but
AFAIK this is a completely different codepath which the ksh93 "sleep"
builtin never uses...

> Um, I'm guessing this is another artifact of being a ksh93 builtin?  Does this
> strike anyone else as a rather large liability of such tricks?

What do you mean ? AFAIK the "sleep" builtin shouldn't do that...

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