From 43d0803c4545861e8f2411aec0987968b2e4a299 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 19:17:40 -0800 Subject: 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 --- bin/sleep/sleep.1 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'bin') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3