On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 02:49:51PM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> Fractional durations (e.g. 0.5s) for the sleep command are useful and
> not terribly uncommon in practice, especially in scripts associated
> with test cases (e.g. mdadm, lttng-tools).  Enable FEATURE_FLOAT_SLEEP
> by default in order to avoid having to patch every instance of a
> script using a fractional sleep.
> 
> The busybox binary gains a few hundred bytes in text (armv5e shown):
> 
> $ size -x busybox.nosuid.{before,after}
>    text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 0x89382         0x71d  0x2250  572655   8bcef busybox.nosuid.before
> 0x8954e         0x721  0x2250  573119   8bebf busybox.nosuid.after
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_ly...@mentor.com>

It's also something I've seen customer use as well in their scripts so
this would remove the need to add it to the local layer.

Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com>

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Tom
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