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From: clark@ttidca.TTI.COM (Ralph Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Rip VanWinkle simulator
Message-ID: <2135@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 88 04:36:34 GMT
Reply-To: clark@ttidca.tti.com (Ralph Clark)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
Lines: 29
Keywords: sleep forever

/* vanwinkle.c - compile with cc -o vanwinkle vanwinkle.c 
*
* For the benefit of those abroad, Rip VanWinkle was an early American
* who fell asleep for twenty years.
*
* The author of this example is a current American who stayed awake for many
* hours trying to use Fred Fish's dbug library, which uses sleep(maybe_0);
*/
#include <stdio.h>
 
main()
{
  printf("Rip is going to sleep now.\n\n");
 
  printf("While Rip rests, he dreams that Andy will choose either\n");
  printf("sleep() or alarm() and post an official patch.\n\n");
 
  printf("See you in twenty years.\nZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\n");
 
  fflush(stdout);
 
  sleep(0);
 
  printf("Rip woke up!!! You must have changed sleep() or alarm()!\n");
 
  fflush(stdout);
 
  exit(0);
}