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I am running Perl 4.035 on a variety of machines, but I first noticed this
problem on an SGI machine running IRIX 4.0.4 (since then I've found the same
thing on the Sparc and Sun3's running 4.1.1).

My problem is this:

   The Perl manpage, book, and quick reference guide all say that

   sleep;

   should cause the program to sleep forever (or until a signal is received).
   I can't get this to work.  sleep makes the program go away for a little
   while but it always comes back.  I would like to block the process 
   effectively (without a busy wait).

   I can't tell if this is a problem with the perl source or something done
   incorrectly when I installed perl.  If anyone has any ideas (or maybe a
   nifty work around), I would be very grateful.

Sorry if this has been discussed or found previously (or fixed maybe?).

e-mail me (or post here if others might be interested).

Neil McKellar (mckellar@cs.ualberta.ca)