Re: rc.d problem

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valery Ushakov)]

Dima Veselov <kab00m%lich.phys.spbu.ru@localhost> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 02:16:31PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 04:07:06PM +0300, Dima Veselov wrote:
>> > I have completely no idea why 8.0-STABLE can't take non-integer value.
>> Is there a locale issu involved?
> 
> Ahh, magician, how did you got this??? Unbelievable.
> 
> [root@ranir ~]$ export LC_ALL=C
> [root@ranir ~]$ sleep 0.05
> [root@ranir ~]$ export LC_ALL=ru_RU.UTF-8
> [root@ranir ~]$ sleep 0.05
> usage: sleep seconds
> [root@ranir ~]$ sleep 0,05
> [root@ranir ~]$ 
> 
> That means it also work wrong in 8.0.
> 
> So, what shall we do with that now? Maybe its right to get ','
> instead of '.', but I beleive this should not work in commandline.
> 
> I have checked - Linux and FreeBSD sleep do not take ',' with 
> same locale.

Heh, reminds me how printing something from SunOS4 apps used to
generate PostScript with locale-specific decimal separator, and PS was
very confused by "floating comma" numbers :)

-uwe