Subject: bug#62751: 29.0.90; New libraries that still need to be assigned to packages

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 09:21:54 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> BTW, how 'bout we drop the `millisec` arg of `sleep-for` as well (and
>> the pretense that there are still systems that can only sleep for whole
>> seconds)?

Sounds good to me.

> Do we know which systems are/were those?  If not, how can we be sure
> they are no longer interesting?

AFAIK, this primarily concerns early UNIX systems.

For example, the HISTORY section in "man 3 usleep" says that the call
was introduced as late as in BSD 4.3, which was released in 1986.