On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 05:00:11PM +0200, Erik Lax wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The manual of usleep(3) states that a usleep() greater than 1,000,000
> microseconds shall fail and return -1. However it does not.
>
> [EINVAL] /microseconds/ specified a value of 1,000,000 or more
> microseconds.
>
> $ echo 'int main() { return usleep(1000001); }' | gcc -xc - && ./a.out; echo
> $?
> 0m1.03s real 0m0.00s user 0m0.02s system
> 0
>
> rqt.tv_sec = useconds / 1000000;
> rqt.tv_nsec = (useconds % 1000000) * 1000;
> return(nanosleep(&rqt, NULL));
>
> I think it would make more sense to remove this statement rather than
> changing usleep.
>
doc fix (-r1.18) committed by millert a little while ago.
jmc
