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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:00:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/37442: [PATCH] sleep.c to support time multipliers
Message-ID:  <200206121400.g5CE0EO40856@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/37442; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, edwin@mavetju.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/37442: [PATCH] sleep.c to support time multipliers
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:58:56 +1000

  > Mmm... not to knock your patch down, but.. you do realize > that this 
 can be done with expr(1) and/or shell built-in
  > arithmetic functions (ksh and bash have $((5 * 1800)),
  > don't know about other shells), right?
 
 That shouldn't be enough to stop the patch though (IMHO anyway). After 
 all df supports -h and I'm sure with a bit of awk and/or sh you could 
 get similar behavior without this rather nice switch.
 
 It just makes sleep that bit more convenient without breaking any 
 historical behavior.
 
 Andrew
 

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