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From: TLiddelow@cybec.com.au (Tim Liddelow)
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Subject: Re: bin/4154: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second.
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Jason Thorpe 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?
> 

Pedantic, man!  The new /bin/sleep will handle BOTH formats.  It handles
a superset of the POSIX spec.  No, it doesn't conform EXACTLY to the
POSIX spec but it _will_ handle all cases that the original /bin/sleep
did.  I agree that of course it won't barf and be an error case now if
you include a '.' but I still think that's a good thing.  

I think it's a good suggestion.

Cheers
Tim.