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Any reasonable sleep API will handle spurious wake ups under the hood and not return control.


It will also ignore those pesky signals and restart the sleep :)

On a more serious note, any reasonable sleep API should either report all wake ups, no matter the reason, or none except for the timeout expiration itself. Any additional "reasonable" filtering is a loaded footgun because different API users have different ideas of what is "reasonable" for them.




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