Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:39:27 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: rotel@indigo.ie Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, denny1@home.com, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: bin/4154 Message-ID: <199804161839.TAA23091@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:21:25 -0000." <199804161021.LAA00729@indigo.ie>
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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? :) That'd be a good idea :-) If the functionality's already in OpenBSD, why re-invent the wheel and why make things incompatible ? It won't break anything AFAIK. > Niall > > -- > Niall Smart. finger njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk for PGP key > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Workstations. www.freebsd.org -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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