On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:39:55PM +0100, Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
>> What if you run a script that echos a message and then execs aptitude,
>> like this, using sudo?
>
> Cannot reproduce the problem now, will try when it shows up again...
>
> What about those 3000 gettimeofday calls?
What about them?
I suspect those are generated by the apt progress-display code. If
apt-get doesn't lock up your computer, then they certainly aren't a
problem. If they are a problem, it's likely a kernel bug; on my
computer calling gettimeofday 3000 times takes a negligible amount of
time and doesn't freeze anything.
If you'd like, you can try compiling the following program and running
it to see if it will freeze:
=======
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <time.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
struct timeval tv;
int i;
for(i = 0; i < 4000; ++i)
gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
return 0;
}
=======
Daniel
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