Serial port (/dev/ttySX) question.

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Sam Sharpe <lists.redhat at samsharpe.net> writes:
> On 31 January 2010 22:24, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
> <wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Mikkel <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> writes:
>>> Nope - sleep only accepts an integer value. Using sleep, 1 second it
>>> the best you will get.
>>
>> $ time sleep 0.5
>>
>> real    0m0.503s
>> user    0m0.001s
>> sys     0m0.002s
>
> We're talking about the C sleep function...
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/sleep.html

Thanks. I saw a sleep(1) in one of the upstream messages and assumed
they were talking about the "man 1" shell command by the same name
(which used to also be an integer-only command at one time).

-wolfgang
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