svn commit: r210750 - head/bin/sleep
Konstantin Belousov
kib at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 2 10:59:24 UTC 2010
Author: kib
Date: Mon Aug 2 10:59:23 2010
New Revision: 210750
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/210750
Log:
Document the new argument parser for sleep(1) and SIGINFO behaviour.
Remove higlight for the unportability notice.
MFC after: 3 weeks
Modified:
head/bin/sleep/sleep.1
Modified: head/bin/sleep/sleep.1
==============================================================================
--- head/bin/sleep/sleep.1 Mon Aug 2 10:57:56 2010 (r210749)
+++ head/bin/sleep/sleep.1 Mon Aug 2 10:59:23 2010 (r210750)
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ suspends execution for a minimum of
If the
.Nm
command receives a signal, it takes the standard action.
+When the
+.Dv SIGINFO
+signal is received, the estimate of the amount of seconds left to
+sleep is printed on the standard output.
.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The
.Dv SIGALRM
@@ -58,14 +62,11 @@ signal is not handled specially by this
.Pp
The
.Nm
-command will accept and honor a non-integer number of specified seconds
-(with a
-.Ql .\&
-character as a decimal point).
-.Bf Sy
+command allows and honors a non-integer number of seconds to sleep
+in any form acceptable by
+.Xr strtod 3 .
This is a non-portable extension, and its use will nearly guarantee that
a shell script will not execute properly on another system.
-.Ef
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh EXAMPLES
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