Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 03:18:25 GMT From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org Subject: git: 43d0803c4545 - main - Soften caveat about fractional seconds for sleep(1) Message-ID: <202101010318.1013IPCv027387@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch main has been updated by bjk (doc committer): URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=43d0803c4545861e8f2411aec0987968b2e4a299 commit 43d0803c4545861e8f2411aec0987968b2e4a299 Author: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2021-01-01 03:17:40 +0000 Commit: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2021-01-01 03:18:20 +0000 Soften caveat about fractional seconds for sleep(1) Support for fractional seconds has become much more widespread since this text was originally written. Reported by: Mark Eichin Reviewed by: gbe, jilles Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26208 --- bin/sleep/sleep.1 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/bin/sleep/sleep.1 b/bin/sleep/sleep.1 index 937c78abdb15..924bc732a0d0 100644 --- a/bin/sleep/sleep.1 +++ b/bin/sleep/sleep.1 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" @(#)sleep.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/18/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 18, 1994 +.Dd December 31, 2020 .Dt SLEEP 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ The command allows and honors a non-integer number of seconds to sleep in any form acceptable by .Xr strtod 3 . -This is a non-portable extension, and its use will nearly guarantee that -a shell script will not execute properly on another system. +This is a non-portable extension, but is also implemented in GNU sh-utils +since version 2.0a (released in 2002). .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std .Sh EXAMPLES
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