Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:26:44 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sleep(1) behavior Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211131125300.39871-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <200211131903.gADJ3OuR066070@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:07:22 -0800 (PST), Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> said: > > > Thanks, that's what I was expecting. The attached patch provides the > > following behavior: > > > sleep 0 = exit 0 immediately > > sleep [ \t]*1AAAA = sleep 1 second > > sleep [ \t]*\.2zzz = sleep .2 seconds > > sleep [ \t]*-.* = usage() > > I believe that the language in the Standard was adopted so that an > implementation can just use strtoul() and have the Standard Thing > happen. So "sleep -1" should sleep for ~0UL seconds? And should usage() ever be called then? -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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