Re: [OT] Question about nanosleep

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

walt wrote:
> Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> > walt wrote:
> > > ...Does DragonFly implement nanosleep, and if not, why not?
> >
> > Yes, it does. There was just a bug in its code for signals. Fixed in
> > 55d25c8782a76b25372313a908dff0a66d6ff342.
>
> Yes, the test code works now, thanks!
>
> You were foolish enough to respond to my question, so here's another one
> for you ;o)
>
> The way I spotted the failure of the nanosleep test on my amd64 linux
> machine was that the 'configure' script hung (hanged?) forever while
> running the nanosleep 'conftest' executable.
>
> The part of this puzzle I don't understand is that the 'configure' code in
> question hangs *only* when run in a gnome session(!)...

Well, someone else gave me the fix for this problem.  The proprietary video
driver from nVidia was breaking gnome somehow, and the fix was to update the
driver.  No idea why it caused the breakage, though.

Thanks anyway.