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From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: bin/4154: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. 
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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
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