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bug#18103: sleep infinity
From: |
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson |
Subject: |
bug#18103: sleep infinity |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:15:04 +0800 |
The user needs to know what is a safe guess for an arbitrarily high
number, i.e., the man page should state the legal range for NUMBER.
0 .. [WHAT?]
Hmmm, on my system
$ sleep 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
apparently works but I'm not going to wait around to find out.
Anyway give a statement there on the man page about how one can
determine the highest value one can use on ones system.
>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
PE> On 07/24/2014 08:43 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Perhaps add an infinity option:
>> $ sleep infinity
PE> That already works. At least it works for me, as long as I cared to
PE> test it....
And indeed it does! But who would ever guess? Please document it on the
man page! Anyway, still mention what the legal range of values is too!
$ strings /bin/sleep|grep -i infinity
$
- bug#18103: sleep infinity, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2014/07/25
- bug#18103: sleep infinity, Bernhard Voelker, 2014/07/25
- bug#18103: sleep infinity, Paul Eggert, 2014/07/25
- bug#18103: sleep infinity,
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <=
- bug#18103: sleep infinity, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2014/07/26
- bug#18103: sleep infinity, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2014/07/26
- bug#18103: sleep infinity, Pádraig Brady, 2014/07/26
- bug#18103: sleep infinity, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2014/07/30