Re: loadable sleep exits immediately

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: loadable sleep exits immediately
Date	2019-11-13 09:21 -0500
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On 11/12/19 9:15 AM, p.debruijn@unilogic.nl wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 23
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 	The loadable sleep function seems to exit almost immediately
> 	in some specific cases.

It's getting interrupted by SIGCHLD. It's fixed in bash-5.0 by blocking 
SIGCHLD in the appropriate function, using select or pselect.

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