Salve Noctambule, >I have a question about sleep builtin. I'm writing a script and at the >end, I want it to simply wait for SIGINT (from user) or signals with >kill builtin.
The normal way to terminate sleep is SIGALRM though, but SIGINT will most likely also work (try it out). >What is the maximum number of seconds that can be used with sleep ? This depends on your operating environment, specifically the fifth argument to the select(2) syscall. bye, //mirabilos -- “It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.” -- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2