Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 20:20:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, denny1@home.com Subject: Re: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. Message-ID: <199710122020.NAA18835@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19971012144032.LF05596@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 12, 97 02:40:32 pm
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> This is an old PR from the GNATS database. > > As denny1@home.com wrote: > > > >Number: 4154 > > >Category: bin > > >Synopsis: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. > > > I have often wished /bin/sleep could sleep for less than one second, > > in the inner loop of a script which I want to slow down slightly. > > Such a feature would be an extension to POSIX, which deals only > > with full seconds. [ ... ] > > This has been implemented in OpenBSD.... Which is not, in itself, justification. 8-). > So are there any proponents of the suggestion (apart from Denny > himself, of course :)? Otherwise, i would like to close it as being > rejected by general opinion. I like it. Please apply the patch I posted in response to another message in this thread; it is a trivial change. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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