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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2006-06-25 06:55:07 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2006-06-25 06:55:07 +0000
commitb2657ecc6a8193a862991bfb08cdc91c6cc5cb91 (patch)
tree785c4224143a5ce350f0b759b9812a4d6a7050b7
parent99fb2bfe1f72be004245801fc57bbc10c25bcdd1 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-b2657ecc6a8193a862991bfb08cdc91c6cc5cb91.tar.xz
(sleep invocation): Document that accepting
multiple arguments and suffixes are extensions. Reported by Dan Jacobson.
-rw-r--r--doc/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi3
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).