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Bug #6019

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sleep can't be infinite

Added by Peter Tribble about 7 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
manpage - manual pages
Start date:
2015-06-21
Due date:
% Done:

100%

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Difficulty:
Bite-size
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needs-triage
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Description

The following snippet from the sleep(1) man page is incorrect:

The floating-
point number may be specified in all formats required by
C99/XPG6, including constants such as "Inf" or "infinite".

The form "infinite" isn't accepted, however "infinity" is.

While looking at sleep(1), a couple of other issues are apparent:
having a separate ksh93 section is wrong as the command and
the builtin are really the same, and the reference to wait(3ucb)
should be removed.

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Updated by Electric Monk about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

git commit bec2e3ffadac8d3536ea115d636d06c7b561623a

commit  bec2e3ffadac8d3536ea115d636d06c7b561623a
Author: Peter Tribble <peter.tribble@gmail.com>
Date:   2017-06-27T22:43:19.000Z

    8212 manpages contain obsolete references
    6019 sleep can't be infinite
    Reviewed by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
    Reviewed by: Yuri Pankov <yuripv@gmx.com>
    Reviewed by: Alexander Pyhalov <alp@rsu.ru>
    Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>

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