From b2657ecc6a8193a862991bfb08cdc91c6cc5cb91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 06:55:07 +0000 Subject: (sleep invocation): Document that accepting multiple arguments and suffixes are extensions. Reported by Dan Jacobson. --- doc/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ doc/coreutils.texi | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 + + * coreutils.texi (sleep invocation): Document that accepting + multiple arguments and suffixes are extensions. + Reported by Dan Jacobson. + 2006-06-12 Paul Eggert * 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). -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2