From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 09:50:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: sleep accepts arbitrary floating point numbers.
X-Git-Tag: SH-UTILS-2_0a~4
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=141036e2ea2d83c9a85d0e55843418263784fab0;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

sleep accepts arbitrary floating point numbers.
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diff --git a/doc/sh-utils.texi b/doc/sh-utils.texi
index e910b3cd7b..aa2635383c 100644
--- a/doc/sh-utils.texi
+++ b/doc/sh-utils.texi
@@ -3059,6 +3059,10 @@ hours
 days
 @end table
 
+Historical implementations of @code{sleep} have required that
+@var{number} be an integer.  However, GNU @code{sleep} accepts
+arbitrary floating point numbers.
+
 The only options are @samp{--help} and @samp{--version}.  @xref{Common
 options}.