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Somehow landed on the NetBSD manpage of sleep(1) and they seem to have a rather…
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@ayke the universe is only 14 b yo :blob_grinning_sweat:
Post #Ax8OttPJ4DkaLqMQZk by [email protected]
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@ayke Little things like that are why I <3 NetBSD :)#NetBSD #runbsd
Post #Ax8VLIKv5WyzDBl5Ci by [email protected]
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@ayke It's not a bug, it's a feature.
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@ayke Thank God they provided the workaround!
Post #Ax8VMKdE2XeYcUobce by [email protected]
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@chesheer @ayke Well, God might have filed the bug report (surely her workload …
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@jandi That explains it all!Suck it, Richard Dawkins!
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@tfed lol, that's relevant context yes.
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@ayke BSD man pages have always listed interesting bugs. On FreeBSD, man tunefs…
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@ayke they probably got one too many CVEs about an integer overflow there
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@ayke At least they are pretty confident about system stability and uptimes.
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@ayke if any current OS will still exist that far into the future, and will sti…
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@ayke luckily there is a work around!
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@ayke This has a Cthulhu vibe to it..
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@tfed @ayke Yes, it's much longer at the other end ... 😁
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@ayke nice easter egg
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@Ea5iyl @ayke No computer made by mortal hands is capable of sleeping for 250 b…
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@ayke @neil A rather interesting NetBSD bug πŸ˜‰
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@aykeBetter safe than sorry!That is not dead which can eternal lie,And with str…
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@ayke Necrons: [furiously taking notes]
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@tfed @ayke What about the multiverse?
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@ayke Imagine how embarrassing it would be if they fixed this bug the year afte…
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@ayke creepy
Post #Ax9kYH7OcaN7fX2Yoy by [email protected]
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@ayke *requires repro
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@ayke reminds me of the 500 mile email back in the day :) https://web.mit.edu/…
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@ayke omg devs what are you waiting for
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@ayke If someone reading this 200 billion years from now somehow managed to kee…
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@ayke Also, undocumented is the special "sleep forever" command, whic…
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@ayke Testing the code. It gets to that part. Sleeps 250 billion years. The …
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@ayke A quick calculation reveals that a signed 64 bit integer can represent ab…
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] ca…
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@m0xEE By an ancient and secretive order of monks, no doubt.@Ea5iyl @ayke
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@jandi @chesheer @ayke I thought she used a Lisp Machine?
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@veronica @tfed @ayke Well, time is relative. So you never know.
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@jdoe probably our universe is in a black hole which is not even the biggest one
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@darkling @chesheer @ayke Not in this thread. This goes per thread. #FediTheodi…
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@ayke Somewhat related - timekeeping in VMS:https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/dec…
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@ayke @jra Well, it could be fixed by having an arbitrary precision type implem…
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@ayke An opportunity to remember this tidbit from @djb in https://cr.yp.to/prot…
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@ayke fun to think about how the components running the sleep command (PCB, tra…
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@ayke I dig this so much! This is awesome!
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@ayke is the bug report proof for time traveling?
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@ayke @tfed It's a relevant context if one assumes the counter is real time…
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@ayke It is a bug, not because you need that specific length duration, but beca…
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@dalias @ayke Let's add "sleep inf" to POSIX next?
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@ayke"Have you tried rebooting the universe to clear the error?"
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@ayke I'm pretty sure that Red Dwarf toaster run into that bug
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@[email protected] shortest cat nap:
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@ayke That's why I said that having 64 bit time representation is a short t…
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@dalias @ayke Which you can do with sleep one billion years. Or tee.Honestly, I…
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@jornane The default behavior of strtoll saturates on overflow. All you have to…
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@dalias Ah that makes sense. I see no reason to check errno there if the only e…
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@jornane It won't wake before the wait time because the hardware and operat…
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@dalias Of course, but I do enjoy reading a manpage that ignores such obvious u…
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@leah @dalias @ayke reminds me of one of the first y2038 bugs that occurred whe…
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@dalias @ayke but just straight up assuming 250 billion years is permanent is t…
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@ayke "you must wait at least 250G years before closing this bug report.&q…
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@jornane Besides, hardware concerns are easy to manage by migrating a VM to a d…
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@ayke I bet you, somebody asked for a larger value range in the past... Wothout…
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@atkelar @ayke Wouldn't surprise me in the least! "The maximum is too …
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@leah @dalias @ayke I'd rather have a different utility called pause tbh
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@ska @leah @ayke I'd rather have something you can rely on to work on exist…
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@dalias @leah @ayke If that's what you want, nothing prevents you from writ…
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@ska @leah @ayke Yeah you just need to know the huge number that won't erro…
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@tig @ayke omg I am old enough to remember when this made it around the Interne…
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@tig thank you for sharing! Yeah that's an interesting quirk of the system …
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@ayke It wasn't my story but I remember reading it many years ago :)
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@grumpyoldtechie ah interesting!
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@argv_minus_one @Ea5iyl @ayke arguably the assumed intent should be that the co…
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@kaito02 @ayke I've been told some people are running this OS on virtual ma…
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@kobold @ayke another member of scary devil monastery? :)
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@gooseliketyping @ayke And it’ll probably be running on a RAD750 in the dista…
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@ayke Ah yes, the Y292,271,025,070 problem.
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