bug#18103: sleep infinity

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 07/25/2014 02:43 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Perhaps add an infinity option:
> $ sleep infinity
> or mention a workaround in the documentation.

Thanks for the proposal.
However, while the theoretical need may be there, I don't
see a practical use case here.

The internal data type is already a 'double', so it's
more than big enough. You could e.g. use

  $ sleep 10000d

which is ...

  $ bc <<<"10000 / 365"
  27

... 27 years; and nothing prevents you from choosing
_much_ larger numbers - although I doubt you'll really
want to wait that long.

Can you give an example where you'd need a "sleep forever"?

Have a nice day,
Berny