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bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args


From: Voelker, Bernhard
Subject: bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:35:12 +0100

Jim Meyering wrote:
> That's an artifact of GNU sleep using strtod, which means "inf" and
> "INFINITY" are also accepted:
> 
>     $ timeout 1 sleep inf
>     [Exit 124]

what's wrong with `sleep inf`?

Have a nice day,
Berny




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