* bug#9100: timeout should use setitimer if available
@ 2011-07-16 19:23 Paul Eggert
2011-07-16 19:25 ` Paul Eggert
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From: Paul Eggert @ 2011-07-16 19:23 UTC (permalink / raw
To: 9100
setitimer has nanosecond resolution, which is better than the
one-second resolution that 'alarm' has. timeout should use
setitimer if available, to take advantage of this. On 64-bit
hosts, this has the additional advantage of increasing the
upper bound for timeouts from 2**31 seconds to 2**63 seconds
(about 68 years to about 292 billion years, which should be
long enough for most practical purposes :-).
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* bug#9100: timeout should use setitimer if available
2011-07-16 19:23 bug#9100: timeout should use setitimer if available Paul Eggert
@ 2011-07-16 19:25 ` Paul Eggert
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From: Paul Eggert @ 2011-07-16 19:25 UTC (permalink / raw
To: 9100-done
Oops, sorry, sent that to the wrong bug address;
it was meant for bug-coreutils. Please ignore.
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