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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-06-25 06:55:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-06-25 06:55:07 +0000 |
| commit | b2657ecc6a8193a862991bfb08cdc91c6cc5cb91 (patch) | |
| tree | 785c4224143a5ce350f0b759b9812a4d6a7050b7 | |
| parent | 99fb2bfe1f72be004245801fc57bbc10c25bcdd1 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-b2657ecc6a8193a862991bfb08cdc91c6cc5cb91.tar.xz | |
(sleep invocation): Document that accepting
multiple arguments and suffixes are extensions.
Reported by Dan Jacobson.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 3 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 04aa1d77b..d3b8bbbbb 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2006-06-20 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + * coreutils.texi (sleep invocation): Document that accepting + multiple arguments and suffixes are extensions. + Reported by Dan Jacobson. + 2006-06-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Use $(_W) and $(W_) instead of diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index c84335f78..9fee7fd7e 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -13410,7 +13410,8 @@ days @end table Historical implementations of @command{sleep} have required that -@var{number} be an integer. However, GNU @command{sleep} accepts +@var{number} be an integer, and only accepted a single argument +without a suffix. However, GNU @command{sleep} accepts arbitrary floating point numbers (using a period before any fractional digits). |