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sleep(1) fractional seconds not so risky
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rG43d0803c4545: Soften caveat about fractional seconds for sleep(1)
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Replace an unnecessarily scary warning about a feature's unportability with something more accurate.

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OK from man pages. If the mentioned extension is existing in the GNU version, the portability should be that worse.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Nov 19 2020, 3:52 PM
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Closed by commit rG43d0803c4545: Soften caveat about fractional seconds for sleep(1) (authored by bjk). · Explain WhyJan 1 2021, 3:18 AM
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command allows and honors a non-integer number of seconds to sleep command allows and honors a non-integer number of seconds to sleep
in any form acceptable by in any form acceptable by
.Xr strtod 3 . .Xr strtod 3 .
This is a non-portable extension, and its use will nearly guarantee that This is a non-portable extension, but is also implemented in GNU sh-utils
a shell script will not execute properly on another system. since version 2.0a (released in 2002).
.Sh EXIT STATUS .Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std .Ex -std
.Sh EXAMPLES .Sh EXAMPLES
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