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Date:      Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:40:32 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        denny1@home.com
Subject:   Re: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second.
Message-ID:  <19971012144032.LF05596@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199707240518.WAA09252@hub.freebsd.org>; from denny1@home.com on Jul 23, 1997 22:18:35 -0700
References:  <199707240518.WAA09252@hub.freebsd.org>

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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. ;-)



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