On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 18:31:57 +0100
Mattias Andrée <maandree_AT_kth.se> wrote:
Hey Mattias,
> - Add support for floating pointer numbers,
> which you will find in other implementations.
I do not favor this aspect, as Dimitris already established well.
> - Add support for suffixes [s|m|h|d], as
> found in GNU sleep, which is very useful.
This is the only thing I could remotely live with, but this would
require us to hand-fiddle with strtod() and have a "lookup-table" for
residuums and multiplication factors (in seconds), e.g.
"s" -> 1
"m" -> 60
"h" -> 60 * 60
"d" -> 24 * 60 * 60
and then do a
for (... i ...) {
if (strcmp(endptr, lookuptable[i].str)) {
sleeptime *= lookuptable[i].fac
}
}
However, anything involving longer "waiting" times than 1 hour should
be done with cron(1). I assume that a naïve programmer would get the
idea of having a rc-script that just idles for 24 hours in an infinite
loop, and having flags in sleep encouraging this is not helpful to
break this premise.
> - Add support for multiple arguments. Not
> really necessary, but brings compatibility
> at barely any cost.
What is the purpose of this aspect?
Cheers
Laslo
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Laslo Hunhold <dev_AT_frign.de>
Received on Tue Dec 27 2016 - 11:45:39 CET