[Python-bugs-list] [Bug #110708] bug in time.sleep (PR#64)
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Bug #110708, was updated on 2000-Jul-31 14:29
Here is a current snapshot of the bug.
Project: Python
Category: Core
Status: Closed
Resolution: Wont Fix
Bug Group: Platform-specific
Priority: 3
Summary: bug in time.sleep (PR#64)
Details: Jitterbug-Id: 64
Submitted-By: ddula@atl.mediaone.net
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:02:51 -0400 (EDT)
Version: 152c1
OS: Debian Alpha Linux (potato) 2.2.1
This is a interesting bug that seems to have started after I upgraded to debian
potato from slink.
It must be a library related bug but this report might help somebody
troubleshoot.
At first I thought it was a bug in threading because it prevented the solaris
hack sleep from returning
thus my thread.start() never returned.
But further digging show that
import time
time.sleep(0.1) # will always hang on on this platform
Work around is to always sleep at least one second - I will do some more looking
at the time class when I get a chance.
Dave Dula
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Audit trail:
Mon Aug 30 12:35:54 1999 guido moved from incoming to platformbug
Mon Aug 30 12:36:15 1999 guido changed notes
Follow-Ups:
Date: 2000-Aug-25 07:03
By: jhylton
Comment:
I poked the original contributor. If he responds, I'll raise the priority.
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Date: 2000-Aug-25 10:43
By: jhylton
Comment:
Dave Dula writes:
My further digging show that it wasn't a bug with python really but the bug
was that floor returned a very large number that caused sleep to 'hang'
So I believed it either to be a kernel bug or a bug in libm but regardless
I have just confirmed that on potato running 2.2.16 the problem no longer seems
to exist so I think the bug can be closed out as a library bug that is now
fixed
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