Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:54:38 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: xaa@stack.nl (Mark Huizer) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, denny1@home.com Subject: Re: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. Message-ID: <199710121354.OAA03525@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <19971012152916.52277@xaa.stack.nl> from "Mark Huizer" at Oct 12, 97 03:28:57 pm
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> I'd like it too. Is it too tough? Perhaps in 2 weeks, after finishing my > graduation, I could look at it. Either you change sleep to look like: > > sleep [-m] NUMBER > > where -m means: the NUMBER is in milliseconds > > or you make it: > > sleep NUMBER[.NUMBER] > > where .number is the decimal part of the second. > > Any preferences? better the one with fractional notation, and since you are at it, make it handle microseconds or in 3-4 years with the Intel-P9 @ 2.49GHz we are going to have the same problem of not enough resolution... Cheers Luigi
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