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| author | Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> | 2021-01-01 03:17:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> | 2021-01-01 03:18:20 +0000 |
| commit | 43d0803c4545861e8f2411aec0987968b2e4a299 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f2b424f254fbedb1825aadac235a795e473fb84 /bin/sleep/sleep.1 | |
| parent | 9997aedb8f2fc9e2460a577431b4861ff6d06fc6 (diff) | |
Soften caveat about fractional seconds for sleep(1)
Support for fractional seconds has become much more widespread since
this text was originally written.
Reported by: Mark Eichin
Reviewed by: gbe, jilles
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26208
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/sleep/sleep.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/sleep/sleep.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bin/sleep/sleep.1 b/bin/sleep/sleep.1 index 937c78abdb15..924bc732a0d0 100644 --- a/bin/sleep/sleep.1 +++ b/bin/sleep/sleep.1 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" @(#)sleep.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/18/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 18, 1994 +.Dd December 31, 2020 .Dt SLEEP 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ The command allows and honors a non-integer number of seconds to sleep in any form acceptable by .Xr strtod 3 . -This is a non-portable extension, and its use will nearly guarantee that -a shell script will not execute properly on another system. +This is a non-portable extension, but is also implemented in GNU sh-utils +since version 2.0a (released in 2002). .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std .Sh EXAMPLES |