Stepan Koltsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 5.0.90-3
>
> sleep accepts float delay argument
>
> LANG=C sleep 0.01 works fine
> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 sleep 0,01 works too
> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 sleep 0.01 fails, but should work, to write scripts easier

Thanks for the report.
This is fixed in coreutils-5.1.0 (2003-12-21) and newer.
>From the NEWS file:

  ** Bug fixes

    printf, seq, tail, and sleep now parse floating-point operands
    and options in the C locale.  POSIX requires this for printf.

That means scripts must always use ".", not ",".


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