Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:35:36 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cynchronised sleep capbilty.. Message-ID: <200502011935.j11JZaR6095484@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20050201101113.J572@localhost>
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: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
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