(sleep invocation): Document that accepting

multiple arguments and suffixes are extensions.
Reported by Dan Jacobson.

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 04aa1d77bc9f8aa3f7abac87bbd5e0afe780c6d8..d3b8bbbbb7d370df0168ba1f26797ab3380ea447 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-06-20  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
+
+       * coreutils.texi (sleep invocation): Document that accepting
+       multiple arguments and suffixes are extensions.
+       Reported by Dan Jacobson.
+
 2006-06-12  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
        * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Use $(_W) and $(W_) instead of

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index c84335f782df7e07d1f598fcab6ab30233929dad..9fee7fd7edaf248f95ae55cd8ef5262ed2b00aef 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -13410,7 +13410,8 @@ days
 @end table
 
 Historical implementations of @command{sleep} have required that
-@var{number} be an integer.  However, GNU @command{sleep} accepts
+@var{number} be an integer, and only accepted a single argument
+without a suffix.  However, GNU @command{sleep} accepts
 arbitrary floating point numbers (using a period before any fractional
 digits).