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Re: CVS commit: src/bin/sleep



On 25.01.2019 15:35, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 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)?
> 

sort(1)
bc(1)
dc(1)
timeout(1)
printf(1)
stat(1)

> christos
> 


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