On 21/01/11 19:28, Jim Meyering wrote: > Paul Eggert wrote: >> On 01/21/2011 01:24 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> My first reflex was to make sleep reject args like 0x... and inf. >> >> My reflex was just the opposite: why reject a notation >> that might be useful? > > I see that at least freebsd's /bin/sleep and the one from sunos 5.11 > work just like the one from coreutils (without my proposed change) > in accepting e.g., 0x1 and inf.
freeBSD 8.1 treats 0x01 and inf as 0 sunos 5.10 rejects both > > netbsd's accepts 0x1 but not inf. > openbsd's accepts neither. cheers, Pádraig.
