[bugs] [illumos gate - Bug #1239] sleep should not be locale sensitive

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Issue #1239 has been updated by Garrett D'Amore.


Why shouldn't it be locale sensitive?  I think it should respect the locale.  If you want your script to work properly, put it into the C locale.  (Of course people who expect fractional second sleeps in scripts are already probably locked into ksh93 and familiar with its warts.)

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Bug #1239: sleep should not be locale sensitive
https://www.illumos.org/issues/1239

Author: Rich Lowe
Status: New
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: cmd - userland programs
Target version: 
Difficulty: Medium
Tags: 


the ksh93-ized sleep tries to support fractions of a second, unfortunately it is locale sensitive (and probably incorrectly locale sensitive, too).

<pre>
/bin/sleep 1.5 # sleeps for 1.5 seconds
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8 /bin/sleep 1.5 # sleeps for 1.5 seconds
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 /bin/sleep 1.5 # sleeps for 15 seconds
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 /bin/sleep 1,5 # sleeps for 1.5 seconds
</pre>

It should probably not be locale sensitive.  If it is going to be locale sensitive, it should probably be nice about LC_NUMERIC, rather than whatever it is doing instead.


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