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

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