2 Feb
2021
2 Feb
'21
4:35 a.m.
On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, Greg A. Woods wrote:
If waiting was the true reason, then any sane person
would have put a
sleep in there instead so as to avoid any variance in typing (and
terminal) speed.
I dunno; that's merely what I was taught in the early Unix days and it got
ingrained into me.
Nowadays I just issue "shutdown -[r|h] now" (I'm the only user)...
More Unix lore: sleep(1) could return straight away at one time (the
granularity was 1 second).
-- Dave, who remembers when sleep(3) used to be sleep(2)