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... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
