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bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:43:35 +0000 |
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On 21/01/11 19:28, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 01/21/2011 01:24 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> My first reflex was to make sleep reject args like 0x... and inf.
>>
>> My reflex was just the opposite: why reject a notation
>> that might be useful?
>
> I see that at least freebsd's /bin/sleep and the one from sunos 5.11
> work just like the one from coreutils (without my proposed change)
> in accepting e.g., 0x1 and inf.
freeBSD 8.1 treats 0x01 and inf as 0
sunos 5.10 rejects both
>
> netbsd's accepts 0x1 but not inf.
> openbsd's accepts neither.
cheers,
Pádraig.
bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args, Jim Meyering, 2011/01/21
bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args, Pádraig Brady, 2011/01/21
bug#7877: sleep 5 -4, jidanni, 2011/01/24