GNU bug report logs - #7877
sleep takes undocumented hex args

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:09:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

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From: "Voelker, Bernhard" <bernhard.voelker <at> siemens-enterprise.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>, "jidanni <at> jidanni.org" <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: "7877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <7877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:35:12 +0100

Jim Meyering wrote:
> That's an artifact of GNU sleep using strtod, which means "inf" and
> "INFINITY" are also accepted:
> 
>     $ timeout 1 sleep inf
>     [Exit 124]

what's wrong with `sleep inf`?

Have a nice day,
Berny
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