Re: Sleep: was Re: Lonely spacecowboy

["Brian K. White" <brian@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Stephenson" <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 5:28 AM
Subject: Sleep: was Re: Lonely spacecowboy


> "Brian K. White" wrote:
> > Veering off topic, though still topical in so far as it's about zsh: One
> > feature I do miss isn't there in the current version either. Only real 
> > ksh
> > has, as far as I've been able to tell even today, built-in sleep that
> > accepts less than one second values.
>
> You can do this (works OK on Cygwin):
>
>  zmodload -i zsh/zselect
>  zselect -t 10
>
> The time is in 100ths of a second, because I didn't use floating point
> numbers (I would have if I was doing it now).  Also, the status returned
> is 1 whether or not it was interrupted (because it's really a timeout),
> so this is a little inconvenient.

Wow sweet! Thanks.

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