From: Eduardo Bustamante Subject: Re: Seconds and microseconds? (Was: Philosophical bash(1) bug) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 19:32:55 -0600
>> [...] >> >> Anyway, I'm assuming that the natural interpretation of what you >> wrote above is that a string value of 3.1 would be interpreted as >> 3.000001 (decimal) ? Or is there some other interpretation? >> > The obvious interpretation is 3 seconds and 100,000 microseconds. > It's fixed-point arithmetic. Oh, I think it is clear that that is what it means. It is just that that is not what it says. I don't think it was wise of Chet to introduce this distraction. It is the sort of thing that can only makes sense if you are familiar with the function signature of select(2). ================================================================================= Please do not send me replies to my posts on the list. I always read the replies via the web archive, so CC'ing to me is unnecessary. When responding to my posts, please try to refrain from giving bureaucratic answers. If you have nothing useful to say, then just click Next and go on.
