2014-10-29 15:09 GMT+01:00 Sami Kerola :
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> This idea came to my mind while writing a script that runs multiple
> commands, and I simply wanted to know how long they are busy. I am
> aware alternatives exist, but they can get a bit tricky if one wants to
> have multiple measurements going on simu
> 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.
If I understand correctly, the orig
On 30 October 2014 20:14, Eduardo A. Bustamante López 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 be
> 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 featu
On 10/31/14, 5:15 AM, Sami Kerola wrote:
> On 30 October 2014 20:14, Eduardo A. Bustamante López
> 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 kep
On 30 October 2014 01:25, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 10/29/14 10:09 AM, Sami Kerola wrote:
>> Would it make sense to add to 'time' builtin a way to measure how long
>> a file descriptor is been kept open? Something like this.
>
> You can use $SECONDS for this, but you have to do the math and keep tra
On 10/29/14 10:09 AM, Sami Kerola wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Would it make sense to add to 'time' builtin a way to measure how long
> a file descriptor is been kept open? Something like this.
You can use $SECONDS for this, but you have to do the math and keep track
of the file descriptors yourself.
Ch
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 02:09:53PM +, Sami Kerola wrote:
> Would it make sense to add to 'time' builtin a way to measure how long
> a file descriptor is been kept open?
Doesn't really make much sense. If you want multiple independent timers,
there's no reason to tie them to open file descript
