Subject: bug#23537: timeout test gets false-positive for duration of -1.189731495357231765e+4932

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 08:06:57 -0700

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Has up to date centos6 the bug?
> I didn't see it with glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64

Yes. I am surprised that you don't see it and I do:

  $ rpm -q glibc
  glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64
  $ src/timeout 0.1 sleep 1.189731495357231765e+4932; echo $?
  0