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PROGRAM:

NAME


sleepenh - an enhanced sleep program

SYNOPSIS


sleepenh [[--warp|-w] INITIALTIME] TIMETOSLEEP

DESCRIPTION


sleepenh is a program that can be used when there is a need to execute some functions
periodically in a shell script. It was not designed to be accurate for a single sleep, but
to be accurate in a sequence of consecutive sleeps.
After a successful execution, it returns to stdout the timestamp it finished running, that
can be used as INITIALTIME to a successive execution of sleepenh.

OPTIONS


-h, --help
display this help and exit

-w, --warp
warp resulting timestamp, when there is no need to sleep. An immediatly following
call of sleepenh with the resulting TIMESTAMP would most probably result in a real
sleep.

-V, --version
output version information and exit

ARGUMENTS


TIMETOSLEEP is a real number in seconds, with microseconds resolution (1 minute, 20
seconds and 123456 microseconds would be 80.123456).
INITIALTIME is a real number in seconds, with microseconds resolution. This number is
system dependent. In GNU/Linux systems, it is the number of seconds since midnight
1970-01-01 GMT. Do not try to get a good value of INITIALTIME. Use the value supplied by a
previous execution of sleepenh.
If you don't specify INITIALTIME, it is assumed the current time.

EXIT STATUS


An exit status greater or equal to 10 means failure. Known exit status:

0 Success.

1 Success. There was no need to sleep. (means that INITIALTIME + TIMETOSLEEP was
greater than current time).

10 Failure. Missing command line arguments.

11 Failure. Did not receive SIGALRM.

12 Failure. Argument is not a number.

13 Failure. System error, could not get current time.

USAGE EXAMPLE


Suppose you need to send the char 'A' to the serial port ttyS0 every 4 seconds. This will
do that:
#!/bin/sh
TIMESTAMP=`sleepenh 0`
while true; do
# send the byte to ttyS0
echo -n "A" > /dev/ttyS0;

# just print a nice message on screen
echo -n "I sent 'A' to ttyS0, time now is ";
sleepenh 0;

# wait the required time
TIMESTAMP=`sleepenh $TIMESTAMP 4.0`;
done

HINT


This program can be used to get the current time. Just execute:

sleepenh 0

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