Bug #1239: sleep should not be locale sensitive - illumos gate - illumos

Bug #1239

sleep should not be locale sensitive

Added by Rich Lowe over 9 years ago. Updated over 1 year ago.

Status:

Resolved

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Robert Mustacchi

Category:

cmd - userland programs

Start date:

2011-07-22

Due date:

% Done:

100%

Estimated time:

Difficulty:

Medium

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Description

the ksh93-ized sleep tries to support fractions of a second, unfortunately it is locale sensitive (and probably incorrectly locale sensitive, too).

/bin/sleep 1.5 # sleeps for 1.5 seconds
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8 /bin/sleep 1.5 # sleeps for 1.5 seconds
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 /bin/sleep 1.5 # sleeps for 15 seconds
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 /bin/sleep 1,5 # sleeps for 1.5 seconds

It should probably not be locale sensitive. If it is going to be locale sensitive, it should probably be nice about LC_NUMERIC, rather than whatever it is doing instead.

Related issues

Updated by Garrett D'Amore over 9 years ago

Why shouldn't it be locale sensitive? I think it should respect the locale. If you want your script to work properly, put it into the C locale. (Of course people who expect fractional second sleeps in scripts are already probably locked into ksh93 and familiar with its warts.)

Updated by Rich Lowe over 9 years ago

In answer to both points: fractional-sleep is available on most other platforms (FreeBSD seems to do it, OSX does do it, GNU does it). None of them respect the locale separator while doing it.

Try with /usr/gnu/bin/sleep, and de_DE.UTF-8 for instance.

Updated by Garrett D'Amore about 9 years ago

I wonder if a simple thing to do is just parse both , and . the same way here. Perhaps just looking for ispunct. That said, I care a lot less about ksh93's sleep... ksh93 is full of warts.