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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: jim <at> meyering.net
Cc: 7877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bernhard.voelker <at> siemens-enterprise.com
Subject: bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:48:14 +0800

You see I was trying to make very special arguments to sleep so that I
can make sure to kill the one I want
    pkill -u jidanni -fx sleep\ 000022
It is not clear if that will still work. Maybe the man/info page should
say a regexp that matches all valid args.
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