bug#18103: sleep infinity

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

The user needs to know what is a safe guess for an arbitrarily high
number, i.e., the man page should state the legal range for NUMBER.
0 .. [WHAT?]
Hmmm, on my system
$ sleep 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
apparently works but I'm not going to wait around to find out.

Anyway give a statement there on the man page about how one can
determine the highest value one can use on ones system.

>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

PE> On 07/24/2014 08:43 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Perhaps add an infinity option:
>> $ sleep infinity

PE> That already works.  At least it works for me, as long as I cared to
PE> test it....

And indeed it does! But who would ever guess? Please document it on the
man page! Anyway, still mention what the legal range of values is too!

$ strings /bin/sleep|grep -i infinity
$