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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2011-07-18 10:49:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2011-07-25 12:00:26 +0100 |
| commit | aeb5222a6d7f7e9be5b737e2dbaf71185a9946db (patch) | |
| tree | 662bc2fd206d7ff948efa26f255a7eea819d6e6c /NEWS | |
| parent | 42c4ba6ceb638e3b624cbf03e0e0da44691f620c (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-aeb5222a6d7f7e9be5b737e2dbaf71185a9946db.tar.xz | |
timeout: support sub-second timeouts
* src/timeout.c (settimeout): A new function to convert
from a floating point duration and call alarm() or
timer_settime() if that's available.
(parse_duration): Return a double rather than unsigned int.
(usage): Mention floating point is supported.
(main): Pass the double to settimeout() rather than
calling alarm() directly with the parsed int.
(cleanup): Likewise.
* doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Say floating point timeouts
now supported, and mention the caveat with resolution.
* bootstrap.conf: Include the timer-time gnulib module.
* tests/misc/timeout-parameters: Add a test with nanoseconds.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- stat -f now recognizes the GPFS, MQUEUE and PSTOREFS file system types. + timeout now supports sub-second timeouts. + ** Build-related Changes inherited from gnulib address a build failure on HP-UX 11.11 |