From: "Felipe Alfaro Solana" <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: akpm@digeo.com, george@mvista.com
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, cobra@compuserve.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Runaway cron task on 2.5.63/4 bk?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:05:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030310230539.30103.qmail@linuxmail.org> (raw)
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:29:44 -0800
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: Runaway cron task on 2.5.63/4 bk?
> If an app wants to sleep forever, calling
>
> while (1)
> sleep(MAX_INT);
>
> seems like a reasonable approach. I'd expect quite a lot of applications
> would be doing that.
why not sleep(0)?
Felipe
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-10 23:05 Felipe Alfaro Solana [this message]
2003-03-10 23:33 ` Runaway cron task on 2.5.63/4 bk? Linus Torvalds
2003-03-11 10:20 ` george anzinger
2003-03-11 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-11 23:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-11 23:09 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-11 23:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-11 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-11 23:46 ` george anzinger
2003-03-11 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-12 1:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-03-12 12:04 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-03-11 23:35 ` george anzinger
2003-03-12 0:48 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-03-12 3:45 ` [PATCH] " george anzinger
2003-03-12 4:57 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-12 10:09 ` george anzinger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-09 7:30 Kevin Brosius
2003-03-09 8:08 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-09 8:17 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-10 19:42 ` george anzinger
2003-03-10 19:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-10 22:21 ` george anzinger
2003-03-10 22:29 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-10 22:46 ` george anzinger
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