GNU bug report logs - #12248
sleep: use realtime seconds, not relative seconds (be

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Albrecht Frenzel <ajfrenzel <at> web.de>

Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:36:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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Message #31 received at 12248 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Albrecht Frenzel <ajfrenzel <at> web.de>
To: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Cc: 12248 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12248: sleep is not arware of suspend mode
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:31:12 +0200

> Granted that most sleeping processes are
> going to be sleeping in C code and no change to the coreutils sleep
> program will affect them.

At script level, I would expect real time behaviour. At system level 
in C code, both is possible.

Remember leap seconds.

Albrecht
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