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Re: usleep patch
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: usleep patch |
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Date: |
17 Apr 2003 16:10:40 -0700 |
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George Mochrie <address@hidden> writes:
> > I don't see the need to support the usleep command. It is not part of
> > any standard that I know of, so no portable shell program can use it
> > anyway.
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> usleep is mentioned in both O'Reilly's 'Linux in a nutshell' and in the
> Advanced Bash Scripting Guide,
Hmm, perhaps you should be sending bug reports to the authors of those
documents, as the modern trend in GNU/Linux is to use "sleep 0.nnnnnn"
rather than "usleep nnnnnn".