patch: sleep/nanosleep bug

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:21:21PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Nov 25 06:11, Eric Blake wrote:
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>> According to Eric Blake on 11/20/2009 7:15 AM:
>> >>> 	* signal.cc (nanosleep): Support 'infinite' sleep times.
>> >>> 	(sleep): Avoid uninitialized memory.
>> >> Sorry but, while I agree with the basic idea, this seems like
>> >> unnecessary use of recursion.  It seems like you could accomplish the
>> >> same thing by just putting the cancelable_wait in a for loop.  I think
>> >> adding recursion here obfuscates the function unnecesarily.
>> > 
>> > How about the following, then?  Same changelog.
>> 
>> Ping.
>
>Do you think we need it in 1.7.1?

No, I don't think so.  I'll get to this after Thanksgiving.

cgf