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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 19:36:35 JST Rich Felker

   @ayke It is a bug, not because you need that specific length duration, but because it fails an operation that's clearly meant as "permanent sleep until killed". Which is how it should be implemented.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 20:19:02 JST Rich Felker

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     • Jørn

     @jornane The default behavior of strtoll saturates on overflow. All you have to do is use the saturated value rather than treating it as an error.

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     Jørn (jornane@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 20:19:04 JST Jørn

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     @dalias @ayke Which you can do with sleep one billion years. Or tee.

     Honestly, I'm happy they didn't go for "funny" number parsing; most number parse errors should return an error.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 20:24:40 JST Rich Felker

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     • Jørn

     @jornane It won't wake before the wait time because the hardware and operating civilization will be dead before 0.001% of the wait time.

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     Jørn (jornane@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 20:24:42 JST Jørn

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     @dalias Ah that makes sense. I see no reason to check errno there if the only error that can occur is ERANGE.

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     Tony Finch (fanf@mendeddrum.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Aug-2025 02:14:59 JST Tony Finch

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     • Leah Neukirchen

     @leah @dalias @ayke reminds me of one of the first y2038 bugs that occurred when a sleep 1000000000 stopped sleeping

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     Leah Neukirchen (leah@blahaj.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Aug-2025 02:15:01 JST Leah Neukirchen

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     @dalias @ayke Let's add "sleep inf" to POSIX next?

     Rich Felker repeated this.