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# 1.28 19-Feb-2023 uwe

sleep(1): minor markup tweaks


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# 1.27 27-Jan-2019 wiz

Sort sections.


Revision tags: pgoyette-compat-20190127
# 1.26 26-Jan-2019 kre

While cute, the previous version is not really safe.
After all, a system might want to sleep for several
thousand years on a spaceship headed to a distant
solar system...

So, remove the pause() code, deal with limits on the
range (it is just an int) that can be passed to sleep()
by looping, and do a much better job of checking for
out of range input values.

With this change sleep(1) should work for durations
up to something more than 250 billion years. It
fails (at startup, with an error) if the requested
duration is beyond what can be handled.

Here no changes at all related to locales and arg
parsing. Still for another day.


# 1.25 26-Jan-2019 kre

Adjust the way the arg string is parsed in the "not entirely
integer" case, so we avoid adjusting the locale of sleep,
and generally be more reliable and simpler.

In addition, deal with weirdness in nanosleep() when the
interval gets long, by avoiding using it. In this version
when the sleep interval < 10000 seconds, we use nanosleep()
as before, for delays longer than that we use sleep() instead,
and ignore any fractional seconds.

We avoid overflow problems here by not bothering to sleep
at all for delays longer than 135 years (approx) and simply
pause() instead. That sleep never terminates in such a
case is unlikely to ever be observed.

This commit makes no decision on the question of whether
the arg should be interpreted in the locale of the user,
or always in the C locale. That is for another day.


Revision tags: pgoyette-compat-20190118 pgoyette-compat-1226 pgoyette-compat-1126 pgoyette-compat-1020 pgoyette-compat-0930 pgoyette-compat-0906 pgoyette-compat-0728 phil-wifi-base pgoyette-compat-0625 pgoyette-compat-0521 pgoyette-compat-0502 pgoyette-compat-0422 pgoyette-compat-0415 pgoyette-compat-0407 pgoyette-compat-0330 pgoyette-compat-0322 pgoyette-compat-0315 pgoyette-compat-base perseant-stdc-iso10646-base
# 1.24 03-Jul-2017 wiz

branches: 1.24.4; 1.24.6;
Remove workaround for ancient HTML generation code.


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# 1.23 12-Aug-2016 sevan

Document the version sleep first appeared.
Bump date.


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# 1.22 15-Aug-2011 wiz

Improve wording.
From Snader_LB.


Revision tags: cherry-xenmp-base bouyer-quota2-nbase bouyer-quota2-base matt-mips64-premerge-20101231
# 1.21 09-Oct-2010 wiz

Bump date for SIGINFO.


# 1.20 09-Oct-2010 mrg

add SIGINFO support; from freebsd:

when a SIGINFO is delivered, display the approximate remaining seconds.


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# 1.19 18-Aug-2007 hubertf

- Cleanup for sleep.c:
+ mark two functions as static
+ remove case '?' in switch() before default
+ use return instead of exit() in main() function
+ use constants EXIT_SUCCESS/EXIT_FAILURE instead of 0/1

- In man sleep(1):
+ cleanup example

Patch submitted by Slava Semushin <php-coder@altlinux.ru> in private email.


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# 1.18 07-Aug-2003 agc

Move UCB-licensed code from 4-clause to 3-clause licence.

Patches provided by Joel Baker in PR 22249, verified by myself.


Revision tags: fvdl_fs64_base
# 1.17 21-Nov-2002 kim

Use shell glob expansion in the csh example, instead of ls with glob.
Reported by Jerry Peek <jpeek@jpeek.com>.


# 1.16 25-Sep-2002 wiz

New policy: New sentences start on a new line.
Patches by Robert Elz <kre at munnari oz au>, with minimal changes by me.


Revision tags: netbsd-1-6-PATCH002-RELEASE netbsd-1-6-PATCH002 netbsd-1-6-PATCH002-RC4 netbsd-1-6-PATCH002-RC3 netbsd-1-6-PATCH002-RC2 netbsd-1-6-PATCH002-RC1 netbsd-1-6-PATCH001 netbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RELEASE netbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RC3 netbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RC2 netbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RC1 netbsd-1-6-RELEASE netbsd-1-6-RC3 netbsd-1-6-RC2 netbsd-1-6-RC1 netbsd-1-6-base
# 1.15 08-Feb-2002 ross

Generate <>& symbolically. I'm avoiding .../dist/... directories for now.


# 1.14 20-Dec-2001 wiz

Sort SEE ALSO.


# 1.13 04-Sep-2000 kleink

For commands and utilities, use EXIT STATUS rather than RETURN VALUES as
appropriate (and documented in mdoc(7)).


# 1.12 28-Aug-2000 hubertf

Add 'RETURN VALUE' section header.


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# 1.11 14-Sep-1997 lukem

branches: 1.11.12;
- getopt returns -1 not EOF
- use .Nm appropriately


# 1.10 04-Aug-1997 perry

Make sleep handle non-integer values. Document the same, noting that
the extension is grotesquely non-portable.

As requested by Denny Gentry in pr-3914. He supplied some code, but I
used all my own code in the change, and wrote documentation for the
man page.

This is creeping featurism at its worst. I added it only because I
can't see a good reason for refusing. However, I'm disgusted with
myself for doing it anyway.


Revision tags: netbsd-1-2-PATCH001 netbsd-1-2-RELEASE netbsd-1-2-BETA netbsd-1-2-base netbsd-1-1-PATCH001 netbsd-1-1-RELEASE netbsd-1-1-base
# 1.9 25-Jul-1995 jtc

Use "utility" instead of "command". Modern definitions of these terms
are distinct (See POSIX.2 glossary).

A utility is a executable, script or shell builtin; while a command
can be any of those things plus lists, pipelines, compound commands
(if, for, while) and shell function definitions.


# 1.8 21-Mar-1995 cgd

convert to new RCS id conventions.


# 1.7 22-Sep-1994 mycroft

Merge 4.4-Lite version.


Revision tags: netbsd-1-0-PATCH06 netbsd-1-0-PATCH05 netbsd-1-0-PATCH04 netbsd-1-0-PATCH03 netbsd-1-0-PATCH02 netbsd-1-0-PATCH1 netbsd-1-0-PATCH0 netbsd-1-0-RELEASE netbsd-1-0-base
# 1.6 11-Jan-1994 jtc

Fix spelling errors.


# 1.5 31-Dec-1993 jtc

localization & manpage update.


# 1.4 01-Aug-1993 mycroft

Add RCS indentifiers.


Revision tags: netbsd-0-9-RELEASE netbsd-0-9-BETA netbsd-0-9-ALPHA2 netbsd-0-9-ALPHA netbsd-0-9-base netbsd-0-8 netbsd-alpha-1
# 1.3 23-Mar-1993 cgd

changed "Id" to "Header" for rcsids


# 1.2 22-Mar-1993 cgd

added rcs ids to all files


# 1.1 21-Mar-1993 cgd

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision