Subject: bug#7877: sleep 5 -4

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:54:35 +0800

>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> writes:
PE> (Have I written enough to tempt ... to extend 'sleep'
PE> to allow negative numbers?  :-)
Right you are young man.
We here at NerdLabs already use
$ sleep -- -100
to give us a few moments to go back and correct errors.
But due to National Security, that's all I can say, except that one
shouldn't make assumptions about what future generations might want to do...