From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 12 05:49:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA18963 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 05:49:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from innocence.interface-business.de (innocence.interface-business.de [193.101.57.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA18955 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 05:49:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by innocence.interface-business.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id OAA17298; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:49:41 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id OAA07066; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:40:33 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971012144032.LF05596@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:40:32 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: denny1@home.com Subject: Re: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. References: <199707240518.WAA09252@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199707240518.WAA09252@hub.freebsd.org>; from denny1@home.com on Jul 23, 1997 22:18:35 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.... [Read the full details including the audit-trail in the database.] So we should decide whether to accept or reject the suggestion, but should not leave the PR lingering in `open' state when apparently nobody seems to be interested at all. 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. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)