debian man page for bup-tick

bup-tick(1)						      General Commands Manual						       bup-tick(1)

NAME
       bup-tick - wait for up to one second

SYNOPSIS
       bup tick

DESCRIPTION
       bup tick  waits	until  time(2)	returns  a different value than it originally did.  Since time() has a granularity of one second, this can
       cause a delay of up to one second.

       This program is useful for writing tests that need to ensure a file date will be seen as modified.  It is  slightly  better  than  sleep(1)
       since it sometimes waits for less than one second.

EXAMPLE
	      $ date; bup tick; date
	      Sat Feb  6 16:59:58 EST 2010
	      Sat Feb  6 16:59:59 EST 2010

BUP
       Part of the bup(1) suite.

AUTHORS
       Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>.

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