On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:27:34AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> Peter Memishian wrote:
> >
> >  > i'm afraid i might be damming myself by making this suggestion,
> >  > but would using a pre-compiled ksh script solve this problem?
> >
> > I'm still puzzled by the whole need to replace `sleep' with a built-in.
> > What was wrong with `sleep' as a C program?
>
> The problem was that it lacked some stuff like sub-second timeout,
> support for hexadecimal floating-point values etc. There is nothing

wow.  i mean, wow.  i've used floating-point in shell scripts, but
hexadecimal floating-point...  that's really hardcore.

ed
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