From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:55:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:55:11 -0500 Received: from 205-158-62-158.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.158]:17288 "HELO spf1.us.outblaze.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:55:09 -0500 Message-ID: <20030310230539.30103.qmail@linuxmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) From: "Felipe Alfaro Solana" To: akpm@digeo.com, george@mvista.com Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, cobra@compuserve.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:05:39 +0100 Subject: Re: Runaway cron task on 2.5.63/4 bk? X-Originating-Ip: 213.4.13.153 X-Originating-Server: ws5-7.us4.outblaze.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Morton Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:29:44 -0800 To: george anzinger 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 -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze