On 07/04/2025 09:08, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2025-04-05 13:56, Pádraig Brady wrote:
I'm going to apply the attached later to remove the libm dependency.
It's just too much of a dependency for minimal functionality.
Thanks, agreed about the dependency. Still, 'timeout' (and, now that I
think about it, 'sleep' and 'tail') should always wait for at least the
time requested.
After thinking about it I installed the attached further patch, which
addresses the problem in a different way without needing libm on
GNU/Linux. Although we could tighten the bounds further in typical cases
(by using the algorithm 'date' uses to parse seconds, if the string is
of that form) I tried to keep it simple, as the main point is to not
sleep for less than the time requested.
Floating point can be such a pain sometimes, even for simple things.
(Read the cited paper and see....)
Nice.
I hadn't realized gnulib's signbit avoided the dependency on libm.
thanks!
Pádraig
