From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Apr 16 03:23:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA01303 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 03:23:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from indigo.ie (nsmart@ts01-04.waterford.indigo.ie [194.125.139.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA01286 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 03:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) Received: (from nsmart@localhost) by indigo.ie (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA00729; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:21:26 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) From: Niall Smart Message-Id: <199804161021.LAA00729@indigo.ie> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:21:25 +0000 In-Reply-To: Tim Vanderhoek "Re: bin/4154" (Apr 15, 7:33pm) Reply-To: rotel@indigo.ie X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, denny1@home.com Subject: Re: bin/4154 Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Apr 15, 7:33pm, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: } Subject: Re: bin/4154 > On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Niall Smart wrote: > > > 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 assume that this won't be compatible with OpenBSD's sleep(1). > Are we really so @$#@ that we want to sacrifice that? Our "sleep n" isn't equivalent to OpenBSD's "sleep n" because they allow floating point numbers. Are you proposing to allow this and forget about all that dHMSu stuff? Perhaps that would be a better idea. Would that break anything? :) Niall -- Niall Smart. finger njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk for PGP key FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Workstations. www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message