Re: [PATCH] "sleep 1" sleeps too little on cygwin

Alex Riesen [off-list ref] writes:

On 1/18/06, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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/.