Re: CVS commit: src/bin/sleep

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jan 25,  8:59pm, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost (Robert Elz) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/bin/sleep

| Sounds entirely reasonable, except the standards won't say anything
| relevant about sleep in particular, as only integers are supported there.
| The same is probably true of most other OS's (the BSDs probably
| excepted) as well.
| 
| If OpenBSD haven't changed their code from what is in the original
| NetBSD PR, then they would only handle '.'.
| 
| FreeBSD use scanf (%f) to parse the arg, which I assume means they
| they process the arg in a locale specific way, as scanf (sscanf really)
| should use locales, right.
| 
| So not much help there either.
| 
| What other commands take floating point args on the command line
| (aside from awk assignments to vars, which are certainly intended
| to be locale specific) I'm not sure I can think of one.
| 
| So, where exactly should be look?

Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX <- is that still alive? We should also
try to contact our connections in the standards committees. Does
anyone know of other utilities that parse floating point numbers
entered from the command line (aside from awk and sleep)?

christos