atom feed12 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-bugsRe: bin/4154: wish /bin/sleep handled...
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den...@home.comJul 23, 1997 10:18 pm 
Jason ThorpeJul 23, 1997 11:09 pm 
Tim LiddelowJul 23, 1997 11:41 pm 
Jordan K. HubbardJul 24, 1997 2:06 am 
Jordan K. HubbardJul 24, 1997 2:11 am 
Bruce EvansJul 24, 1997 5:25 am 
Jason ThorpeJul 24, 1997 9:43 am 
Tim LiddelowJul 24, 1997 5:00 pm 
Sergei S. LaskavyJul 25, 1997 1:28 am 
Jason ThorpeJul 25, 1997 7:54 am 
FreeBSD Technical ReaderJul 26, 1997 12:28 pm 
FreeBSD Technical ReaderJul 26, 1997 12:29 pm 
Subject:Re: bin/4154: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second.
From:Jason Thorpe (thor@nas.nasa.gov)
Date:Jul 23, 1997 11:09:41 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-bugs

The following reply was made to PR bin/4154; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Thorpe <thor@nas.nasa.gov> To: den@home.com Cc: free@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/4154: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:55:27 -0700

On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:18:35 -0700 (PDT) den@home.com wrote:

> This has been implemented in OpenBSD. The crucial portion of the > code I submitted there has been pasted below. It would be nice to > get such an extension adopted more widely in *BSD, so portable scripts > could use it.

How on earth can you call such a script "portable" if it clearly uses something not specified in POSIX?

Jason R. Thorpe thor@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939