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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

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