On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Jim Meyering wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote: > > Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > >> severity 122639 wishlist > > Bug#122639: /bin/sleep use of pthreads > > Severity set to `wishlist'. > > If I understand the original report, you can close this bug, > since sleep now accepts floating point numbers.
The bug called for using the sleep system call instead of nanosleep, indeed assuming that sleep(1) is used with an integer argument. However, I wonder if anybody actually uses the less-than-a-second precision feature given the portability concerns (I have never seen a packaged shell script that does it). If you feel that the feature is useful, just close the bug. Otherwise, if you think that a less heavy binary (one that just does a single sleep syscall) would be appropriate, then the bug should remain. Maybe the coreutils should include the lighter one (the one the bug is calling for), and for somebody requiring the higher- precision sleep binary an alternative-creating package could be done (although that is a lot of work for nothing if nobody uses the noninteger argument shell syntax of this command). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
