Re: cynchronised sleep capbilty..

From: Matthew Dillon <dillon_at_apollo.backplane.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:35:36 -0800 (PST)
:I often find myself wanting to write shell scripts that do:
:
:...
:
:while:
:do
: 	report results
: 	sleep -until_next 10
:done
:
:
:I have inplemented something like this with a crude
:shell function that sleeps up to 9 seconds to get to

    I think integrating such an option into /bin/sleep is an excellent idea.
    I have had need for such a feature myself on occassion.

:thirdly: is it worth making sleep a shell builtin?
:running sleep(1) every time is a lot of work for what
:we need.
:
:julian

    I don't think this is necessary.

					-Matt
Received on Tue Feb 01 2005 - 18:35:38 UTC

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