Hi Ted, Ted Unangst wrote on Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 01:09:22PM -0400: > Philip Guenther wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> agreed, but why not return 1? i don't want to have to slap 2>/dev/null >>> around all my sleep calls now. >> So don't. Why would you need to? > doesn't err() print a message? Sure, but only if you specify an excessively large number of seconds, which you are unlikely to ever do. In case you do, you presumably want to sleep for a very long time, but actually, you won't sleep at all. In that case, an error message might actually help debugging. Yours, Ingo
