Bug 36571

Summary:	improper use of sleep/locales in ppp-2.4.2_beta3-r1
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	François MASSON <tereutes>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Dialup Developers <net-dialup>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description François MASSON 2003-12-27 03:14:11 UTC

the net.ppp0 script use the sleep command with "0.5" parameter.
On certains locales (mine is French) the separator is a coma. i.e. one should have writen "sleep 0,5" instead of "sleep 0.5"
The easier wait to solve this problem is to use "sleep 1", which isn't local dependant.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-27 06:46:41 UTC

thx for pointing that out, fixed :)