From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:55:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "sleep 1" sleeps too little on cygwin
Message-ID: <7vd5ipzd9n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0601180550k4df9b89fwf73af7966095ffc7@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/18/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> Instead of depending on $SECONDS (isn't it a bashism?), how
>> about doing something like this?
>
> Probably not, even QNX6 ksh has it, and being the most broken shell
> I ever met, I'd consider $SECONDS safe 8-)

When I have to answer these questions myself, I mostly do so by
checking http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/.