Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:21:25 +0000 From: Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, denny1@home.com Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: bin/4154 Message-ID: <199804161021.LAA00729@indigo.ie> In-Reply-To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> "Re: bin/4154" (Apr 15, 7:33pm)
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On Apr 15, 7:33pm, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: } Subject: Re: bin/4154 > On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Niall Smart wrote: > > > sleep -d 1.5 -m 2 -s 4 > > > > would mean sleep 1/2 days, 2 minutes and 4 seconds. > > > > Whaddyall think? A solution looking for a problem or the best > > invention since sliced bread? > > I assume that this won't be compatible with OpenBSD's sleep(1). > Are we really so @$#@ that we want to sacrifice that? Our "sleep n" isn't equivalent to OpenBSD's "sleep n" because they allow floating point numbers. Are you proposing to allow this and forget about all that dHMSu stuff? Perhaps that would be a better idea. Would that break anything? :) Niall -- Niall Smart. finger njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk for PGP key FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Workstations. www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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