Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:31:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, denny1@home.com Subject: Re: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971012133035.8700B-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19971012144032.LF05596@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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. ;-) >
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