That looks like a Solaris quirk. Normalization of the values is not
required by the POSIX standard, nor by the other implementations we have
tested. The Solaris 7 man page does mention the restriction though.
We will change it for 2.3.0, thank you.
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Stephen C. Pope wrote:
I noticed that R was burning up 100% of a CPU when a call to Sys.sleep()
was made. Upon investigation, I discovered that R_checkActivityEx() in
src/unix/sys-std.c was putting the entire timeout (in usec) into the
struct timeval tv_usec member, leaving tv_sec set to 0.
I don't know about other u
