Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:39:27 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: rotel@indigo.ie Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, denny1@home.com, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: bin/4154 Message-ID: <199804161839.TAA23091@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:21:25 -0000." <199804161021.LAA00729@indigo.ie>
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> 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? :)
That'd be a good idea :-) If the functionality's already in OpenBSD,
why re-invent the wheel and why make things incompatible ? It won't
break anything AFAIK.
> Niall
>
> --
> Niall Smart. finger njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk for PGP key
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