1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/coreutils/usleep.c b/coreutils/usleep.c
index 7bc30c2a2..e68bb4c4d 100644
--- a/coreutils/usleep.c
+++ b/coreutils/usleep.c
@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ int usleep_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
                 bb_show_usage();
         }
 
+        /* Safe wrt NOFORK? (noforks are not allowed to run for
+         * a long time). Try "usleep 99999999" + ^C + "echo $?"
+         * in hush with FEATURE_SH_NOFORK=y.
+         * At least on uclibc, usleep() thanslates to nanosleep()
+         * which returns early on any signal (even caught one),
+         * and uclibc does not loop back on EINTR.
+         */
         usleep(xatou(argv[1]));
 
         return EXIT_SUCCESS;