Soften caveat about fractional seconds for sleep(1)

Support for fractional seconds has become much more widespread since
this text was originally written.

Reported by:    Mark Eichin
Reviewed by:    gbe, jilles
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26208
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Benjamin Kaduk 2020-12-31 19:17:40 -08:00
parent 9997aedb8f
commit 43d0803c45

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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" @(#)sleep.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd April 18, 1994
.Dd December 31, 2020
.Dt SLEEP 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ The
command allows and honors a non-integer number of seconds to sleep
in any form acceptable by
.Xr strtod 3 .
This is a non-portable extension, and its use will nearly guarantee that
a shell script will not execute properly on another system.
This is a non-portable extension, but is also implemented in GNU sh-utils
since version 2.0a (released in 2002).
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh EXAMPLES