From 615ba911c4ecaacb6b16f4b85205779541953d3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: scivision <scivision@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:38:59 -0500
Subject: Help: cmake(1): sleep can have floating point value
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Help/manual/cmake.1.rst | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
index e48ecd9..76dc883 100644
--- a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
+++ b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
@@ -1080,11 +1080,18 @@ Available commands are:
situations instead. Use ``--`` to stop interpreting options and treat all
remaining arguments as paths, even if they start with ``-``.
-.. option:: sleep <number>...
+.. option:: sleep <number>
.. versionadded:: 3.0
- Sleep for given number of seconds.
+ Sleep for ``<number>`` seconds. ``<number>`` may be a floating point number.
+ A practical minimum is about 0.1 seconds due to overhead in starting/stopping
+ CMake executable. This can be useful in a CMake script to insert a delay:
+
+ .. code-block:: cmake
+
+ # Sleep for about 0.5 seconds
+ execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E sleep 0.5)
.. option:: tar [cxt][vf][zjJ] file.tar [<options>] [--] [<pathname>...]
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