Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:03:24 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sleep(1) behavior Message-ID: <200211131903.gADJ3OuR066070@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211131003010.39871-200000@root.org> References: <20021113080425.GO1278@starjuice.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211131003010.39871-200000@root.org>
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<<On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:07:22 -0800 (PST), Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> said: > Thanks, that's what I was expecting. The attached patch provides the > following behavior: > sleep 0 = exit 0 immediately > sleep [ \t]*1AAAA = sleep 1 second > sleep [ \t]*\.2zzz = sleep .2 seconds > sleep [ \t]*-.* = usage() I believe that the language in the Standard was adopted so that an implementation can just use strtoul() and have the Standard Thing happen. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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