Re: Runaway cron task on 2.5.63/4 bk?

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----- 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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