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  Re: loadable sleep exits immediately Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2019-11-13 09:21 -0500

#15667 — Re: loadable sleep exits immediately

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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