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Document the new argument parser for sleep(1) and SIGINFO behaviour.

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Remove higlight for the unportability notice.

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Konstantin Belousov 2010-08-02 10:59:23 +00:00
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@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ suspends execution for a minimum of
If the
.Nm
command receives a signal, it takes the standard action.
When the
.Dv SIGINFO
signal is received, the estimate of the amount of seconds left to
sleep is printed on the standard output.
.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The
.Dv SIGALRM
@ -58,14 +62,11 @@ signal is not handled specially by this implementation.
.Pp
The
.Nm
command will accept and honor a non-integer number of specified seconds
(with a
.Ql .\&
character as a decimal point).
.Bf Sy
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.
.Ef
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh EXAMPLES