Subject: sleep 9999999999
From: Matthew Bachmann <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:31:42 -0500
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sleep called with very big numbers returns immediately with success

-Matt

matt@ita1bbx40,d1r17733u07 | date; sleep 9999999999 && echo success; date; sleep --version
Tue Nov  9 14:31:04 EST 2010
success
Tue Nov  9 14:31:04 EST 2010
sleep (GNU coreutils) 5.97
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