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bug#7877: sleep 5 -4


From: jidanni
Subject: bug#7877: sleep 5 -4
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:54:35 +0800

>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
PE> (Have I written enough to tempt ... to extend 'sleep'
PE> to allow negative numbers?  :-)
Right you are young man.
We here at NerdLabs already use
$ sleep -- -100
to give us a few moments to go back and correct errors.
But due to National Security, that's all I can say, except that one
shouldn't make assumptions about what future generations might want to do...





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