Re: [Help-bash] Why is sleep not a builtin

[Jesse Hathaway]

sorry hit sent accidentally,

I was profiling some bash code and found thousand of execve's running
sleep. Though the aggressive sleeps were not the cause of the problem, as
they were used to wait for a background job to complete. I was curious as
to why sleep is not a bash builtin so as to avoid all the forks, when waiting
for another process to complete? The developer could have used wait, but
then they can't provide any progress feedback to the user.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 9:30 AM, Jesse Hathaway <address@hidden> wrote:
> I was profiling some bash code and found thousand of execve's running
> sleep. Though the agresssive