From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 12 13:20:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA13081 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:20:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from usr05.primenet.com (tlambert@usr05.primenet.com [206.165.6.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA13070 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:20:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA18835; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:20:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710122020.NAA18835@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 20:20:36 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, denny1@home.com In-Reply-To: <19971012144032.LF05596@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 12, 97 02:40:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This is an old PR from the GNATS database. > > As denny1@home.com wrote: > > > >Number: 4154 > > >Category: bin > > >Synopsis: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. > > > I have often wished /bin/sleep could sleep for less than one second, > > in the inner loop of a script which I want to slow down slightly. > > Such a feature would be an extension to POSIX, which deals only > > with full seconds. [ ... ] > > This has been implemented in OpenBSD.... Which is not, in itself, justification. 8-). > So are there any proponents of the suggestion (apart from Denny > himself, of course :)? Otherwise, i would like to close it as being > rejected by general opinion. I like it. Please apply the patch I posted in response to another message in this thread; it is a trivial change. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.