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Wrapping 'sleep' with my 'resleep' function (Resettable sleep)
Post 302357043 by deckard on Monday 28th of September 2009 01:58:20 PM
09-28-2009
cfajohnson:
Thanks very much for the feedback. UUoC! I didn't know what that was until a little Google help... I'll demoggify the original script in a few minutes.
The reason I didn't use a variable is that the problem I'm trying to solve is when sleep is used by a process that doesn't have a terminal (scheduled from crontab or backgrounded and the parent shell terminated). Unless there's a way to set up variables that can be accessed from any shell on the system... Sometimes when I schedule a job with cron with the execution length controlled by sleep, I want to be able to reset the execution length. I'm sure there is a much cleaner way to do this than a temp file though.
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Corona688:
Man that's pretty cool! (I only looked at the code, haven't tried it yet) You're right that it would probably be done better in C, but I'm still working on learning C. But thank you very much for taking the time to actually code something in C as an example for a better approach. That's what makes the people of unix.com so great!
Thanks very much for the feedback. UUoC! I didn't know what that was until a little Google help... I'll demoggify the original script in a few minutes.
The reason I didn't use a variable is that the problem I'm trying to solve is when sleep is used by a process that doesn't have a terminal (scheduled from crontab or backgrounded and the parent shell terminated). Unless there's a way to set up variables that can be accessed from any shell on the system... Sometimes when I schedule a job with cron with the execution length controlled by sleep, I want to be able to reset the execution length. I'm sure there is a much cleaner way to do this than a temp file though.
---------- Post updated at 01:58 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:41 PM ----------
Corona688:
Man that's pretty cool! (I only looked at the code, haven't tried it yet) You're right that it would probably be done better in C, but I'm still working on learning C. But thank you very much for taking the time to actually code something in C as an example for a better approach. That's what makes the people of unix.com so great!
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