On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Juli Mallett wrote: > * De: Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-11-12 ] > [ Subjecte: sleep(1) behavior ] > > I've found an interesting contradiction and was wondering what behavior > > sleep should have. It checks for a command line flag with getopt(3) and > > exits with usage() if it finds one. However, it then checks for a '-' or > > '+' sign. If negative, it behaves like "sleep 0" and exits > > immediately. This case can almost never be triggered since the > > getopt(3) will catch the minus sign, even if a digit follows it. > > > > Current behavior: > > sleep 0 = exits immediately > > sleep -1 = exits with usage() > > sleep -f = exits with usage() > > sleep " -1" = exits immediately and is the only way I know to trigger > > the negative case. > > What about: > > sleep -- -1 > > ?
Same as the last case. My question is, what is required/desired behavior? -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
