Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 23:10:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/4154: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. Message-ID: <199707240610.XAA11247@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/4154; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: denny1@home.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/4154: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:55:27 -0700 On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:18:35 -0700 (PDT) denny1@home.com wrote: > This has been implemented in OpenBSD. The crucial portion of the > code I submitted there has been pasted below. It would be nice to > get such an extension adopted more widely in *BSD, so portable scripts > could use it. How on earth can you call such a script "portable" if it clearly uses something not specified in POSIX? Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939
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