sleep (UINT_MAX) broken

[Andreas Jaeger]

This small program returns directly with:
gromit:~/tmp:[0]$ ./a.out 
Ret is :4294967295

#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <limits.h>

int
main (void)
{
  unsigned int ret;
  
  ret = sleep (UINT_MAX);
  printf ("Ret is :%u\n", ret);
  
  return 0;
}

The problem is that we convert the unsigned argument to sleep into a
signed value (-1) and then pass that to nanosleep.

This worked with older versions of Glibc AFAIK.

What can we do here?  I don't understand what Posix requires from us
here:-(

Andreas
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