Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 02:56:06 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: rotel@indigo.ie Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, denny1@home.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/4154 Message-ID: <199804150156.CAA25317@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:52:17 -0000." <199804142152.WAA01576@indigo.ie>
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> On Apr 14, 12:19pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> } Subject: Re: bin/4154
> > Synopsis: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second.
> >
> > State-Changed-From-To: feedback-suspended
> > State-Changed-By: phk
> > State-Changed-When: Tue Apr 14 12:18:38 PDT 1998
> > State-Changed-Why:
> > ->suspended.
>
> Hrm, how about I write code to support two forms of sleep:
>
> sleep n
>
> which sleeps n seconds, and
>
> sleep -d | -h | -m | -s | -u duration ...
>
> which sleeps the specified number of days, hours, minutes, seconds
> or microseconds. You can even specify multiple arguments and use
> floating point numbers so that
>
> sleep -d 1.5 -m 2 -s 4
>
> would mean sleep 1/2 days, 2 minutes and 4 seconds.
>
> Whaddyall think? A solution looking for a problem or the best
> invention since sliced bread?
I think this is a good idea, but it may be worth staying consistent
with the -v option to date (syntax-wise).
> Niall
>
> --
> Niall Smart. Microsoft Suck. See www.freebsd.org for details.
> echo "#define if(x) if(!(x))" >> /usr/include/stdio.h
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