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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). |