On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 18:35:44 +0000 Dimitris Papastamos <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 06:31:57PM +0100, Mattias Andrée > wrote: > > - Add support for floating pointer numbers, > > which you will find in other implementations. > > > > - Add support for suffixes [s|m|h|d], as > > found in GNU sleep, which is very useful. > > I find these features overkill for sleep(1). > I regularly use the suffix feature to sleep for very long times. I find that it is much better than using at. Floating point numbers may be a bit unnecessary, but it is supported in at least FreeBSD and GNU. It might also be useful for some scripts, like init scripts. And I think it is better than implementing usleep(1). At the very least we should allow using floating points even if we truncate it to integers.
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