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On 2004.10.21 14:37:10 +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:

> Here's a little patch that teaches lock(1) about timeouts specified in
> seconds, hours, or days in addition to the minutes it currently assumes.
> I could commit this in a week if there are no objections.

Wouldn't it be more natural to just append the time-unit type to the
argument given to -t, e.g. "-t 10s" or "-t 10h".  That just seem like
the more intuitive way to handle it to me...

Note: this is a suggestion, not an objection to the original patch.

--=20
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team

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