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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: sleep(1) behavior
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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


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