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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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             reply	other threads:[~2003-03-10 22:55 UTC|newest]

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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