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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Wrapping 'sleep' with my 'resleep' function (Resettable sleep) Post 302356497 by Corona688 on Friday 25th of September 2009 05:43:47 PM
Old 09-25-2009
That seems an awkward thing to do in shell. It'd also make it difficult to run two instances of sleep. I'd write it in C:
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <limits.h>

void catch(int c)        {       }

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        unsigned long start=time(NULL), len;

        if(argc != 2)
        {
                fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s 60\n", argv[0]);
                return(1);
        }

        len=atol(argv[1]);

        if((len == LONG_MIN) || (len == LONG_MAX) || (len < 0))
        {
                fprintf(stderr, "Bad input value, must be positive integer\n");
                return(1);
        }

        signal(SIGINT, catch);

        while( (time(NULL) < (start+len)))
        if(sleep((start+len) - time(NULL)))
        {
                int off=INT_MAX;
                signal(SIGINT, SIG_DFL);
                while(off == INT_MAX)
                {
                        printf("\r%d seconds remain, offset:",
                                (start+len)-time(NULL));

                        if(scanf("%d", &off) != 1)
                        {
                                fflush(stdin);
                                off=-1;
                        }
                }

                printf("%d%+d seconds, %d remain\n", len, off,
                        (start+len+off)-time(NULL));
                len += off;

                signal(SIGINT, catch);
        }

        return(0);
}

Run it and hit ctrl-C, and it will show a prompt telling you how much is left then ask for an offset in seconds. A positive number of seconds will add time, a negative number will subtract time. It calculates all this time relative to the program start, so a 'resleep 90', ctrl-c, then adding 25 will have it end precisely 115 seconds after it started even though some seconds may have been spent waiting for you to type. If you hit ctrl-C again instead of entering an offset, it just quits.

Last edited by Corona688; 09-25-2009 at 06:49 PM..
 

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NAME
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libzip (-lzip) SYNOPSIS
struct zip_source * zip_source_filep(struct zip *archive, FILE *file); "zip_uint64_t start" "zip_int64_t len" DESCRIPTION
The function zip_source_filep creates a zip source from a file stream. zip_source_filep reads len bytes from offset start from the open file stream file. If len is 0 or -1, the whole file (starting from start ) is used. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the created source is returned. Otherwise, NULL is returned and the error code in archive is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
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libzip(3), zip_add(3), zip_replace(3), zip_source_buffer(3), zip_source_file(3), zip_source_free(3), zip_source_function(3), zip_source_zip(3) AUTHORS
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