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@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
.Nm sleep
.Nd suspend execution for an interval of time
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm sleep
+.Nm
.Ar seconds
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
@@ -50,17 +50,27 @@ The
command
suspends execution for a minimum of
.Ar seconds .
-.Nm Sleep
-is used to schedule the execution of other commands (see
-.Sx EXAMPLES
-below).
.Pp
If the
.Nm
command receives a signal, it takes the standard action.
+.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The
.Dv SIGALRM
signal is not handled specially by this implementation.
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+command will accept and honor a non-integer number of specified seconds
+.Po
+with a
+.Ql \&.
+character as a decimal point
+.Pc .
+.Bf Sy
+This is a non-portable extension, and its use will nearly guarantee that
+a shell script will not execute properly on another system.
+.Ef
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
The
.Nm
@@ -110,9 +120,7 @@ when the file is found, then another portion processing
is done courteously by sleeping for 70 seconds in between each
awk job.
.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr at 1 ,
-.Xr nanosleep 2 ,
-.Xr sleep 3
+.Xr nanosleep 2
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm
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