Hack^H^H^H^Hworkaround for itimerfix(9) gratuitously limiting the

acceptable range for tv_sec to the magic number 100000000 (which at
least ought to be declared in a header file, and explained in the
non-existing man page, as well as in the existing man pages for
nanosleep(2) & Co.).

PR:		bin/4259

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sleep.c b/lib/libc/gen/sleep.c
index 36348bc..6a40d93 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sleep.c
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sleep.c
@@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ sleep(seconds)
 	struct timespec time_remaining;
 
 	if (seconds != 0) {
+		/*
+		 * XXX
+		 * Hack to work around itimerfix(9) gratuitously limiting
+		 * the acceptable range for a struct timeval.tv_sec to
+		 * <= 100000000.
+		 */
+		if (seconds > 100000000)
+			seconds = 100000000;
 		time_to_sleep.tv_sec = seconds;
 		time_to_sleep.tv_nsec = 0;
 		nanosleep(&time_to_sleep, &time_remaining);
@@ -75,6 +83,14 @@ sleep(seconds)
 	sigset_t mask, omask;
 
 	if (seconds != 0) {
+		/*
+		 * XXX
+		 * Hack to work around itimerfix(9) gratuitously limiting
+		 * the acceptable range for a struct timeval.tv_sec to
+		 * <= 100000000.
+		 */
+		if (seconds > 100000000)
+			seconds = 100000000;
 		time_to_sleep.tv_sec = seconds;
 		time_to_sleep.tv_nsec = 0;