On 10/31/14, 5:15 AM, Sami Kerola wrote: > On 30 October 2014 20:14, Eduardo A. Bustamante López <dual...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>> Sounds the there is not much enthusiasm about making this sort of >>> feature to work. This proposal belongs to archived never implemented >>> ideas area. Good that effort wasting was kept minimal. >> Remember that working patches are better than just requesting >> features. There are lots of pending features that are requested more >> frequently, so that's a lot of work for a single person to handle. > > I prefer first getting understanding if a feature is wanted, before > starting to hack too much. My time has value to me. I don't want to > spend it in writing a change that will be rejected. Neither I want to > spend maintainer time to go through that sort of stuff. In other > words; fail as fast & cheap way as possible is a good workflow.
OK. It doesn't sound like this feature is of general interest. Since you can control when you open and close file descriptors, you might look at $SECONDS when the file is opened and when it's closed and using the difference to see how long it was open. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/