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

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Message #64 received at 7877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Cc: 7877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jim <at> meyering.net
Subject: Re: bug#7877: sleep 5 -4
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:54:35 +0800

>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> 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...

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