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bug#9102: "timeout 0 FOO" should timeout right away
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#9102: "timeout 0 FOO" should timeout right away |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:17:59 +0100 |
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On 19/07/11 23:00, James Youngman wrote:
> 2011/7/17 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>:
>> On 07/17/11 05:31, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> Well my reasoning for having "0" mean don't timeout,
>>> was to have an easy way in scripts to specify no timeout
>>
>> That's a good thing to have, but it could be specified in
>> a different way. One possibility is the '1' (digit 1) option,
>> e.g., "timeout -1 FOO". Or if that's too clever, we could
>> use some other letter for the option.
>
> I'm not sure that's worked out so well for tail. But if we are
> looking for an argument indicating we don't want a timeout, the
> argument "never" is quite clear.
I don't follow (pardon the pun).
This will "sleep(0)" between polls which takes 10% of my cpu here:
tail ---disable -s0 -F nosuch
cheers,
Pádraig.