From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 12 13:40:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA14770 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:40:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA14765 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:40:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA20462; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:32:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd020460; Sun Oct 12 20:32:48 1997 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:31:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD hackers , denny1@home.com Subject: Re: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. In-Reply-To: <19971012144032.LF05596@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Actually I support this.. I often want to do this.. (but can't) julian (yeah sounds like I'm volunteering right?) On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > 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.... > > [Read the full details including the audit-trail in the database.] > > So we should decide whether to accept or reject the suggestion, but > should not leave the PR lingering in `open' state when apparently > nobody seems to be interested at all. > > 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. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >