On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:50:38PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> In ksh the
> sleep would be ksh itself
Oh, interesting.
imadev:~$ ksh -c 'type sleep'
sleep is /usr/bin/sleep
arc3:~$ ksh -c 'type sleep'
sleep is a shell builtin
Looks like sleep is a builtin in ksh93 but not in ksh88. Good to know
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > P.S. In the old days mixing sleep(3) and SIGALRM was frowned upon. ...
>
> But this is bash, so you're using sleep(1) not sleep(3).
Actually on GNU systems it is the coreutils sleep(1) and not related
to bash at all. :-)
> In other words, the "sleep 5
