On 19/07/11 23:00, James Youngman wrote: > 2011/7/17 Paul Eggert <[email protected]>: >> On 07/17/11 05:31, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> Well my reasoning for having "0" mean don't timeout, >>> was to have an easy way in scripts to specify no timeout >> >> That's a good thing to have, but it could be specified in >> a different way. One possibility is the '1' (digit 1) option, >> e.g., "timeout -1 FOO". Or if that's too clever, we could >> use some other letter for the option. > > I'm not sure that's worked out so well for tail. But if we are > looking for an argument indicating we don't want a timeout, the > argument "never" is quite clear.
I don't follow (pardon the pun). This will "sleep(0)" between polls which takes 10% of my cpu here: tail ---disable -s0 -F nosuch cheers, Pádraig.
