From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Apr 16 13:46:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26928 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:46:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA26770 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 20:45:21 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA23091; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:39:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199804161839.TAA23091@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: rotel@indigo.ie cc: Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, denny1@home.com, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: bin/4154 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:21:25 -0000." <199804161021.LAA00729@indigo.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:39:27 +0100 From: Brian Somers 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? :) 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 > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Workstations. www.freebsd.org -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message