Sam Sharpe <lists.redhat(a)samsharpe.net> writes:
On 31 January 2010 22:24, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
<wolfgang.rupprecht(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mikkel <mikkel(a)infinity-ltd.com> writes:
>> Nope - sleep only accepts an integer value. Using sleep, 1 second it
>> the best you will get.
>
> $ time sleep 0.5
>
> real 0m0.503s
> user 0m0.001s
> sys 0m0.002s
We're talking about the C sleep function...
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/sleep.html
Thanks. I saw a sleep(1) in one of the upstream messages and assumed
they were talking about the "man 1" shell command by the same name
(which used to also be an integer-only command at one time).
-wolfgang
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