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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
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