cynchronised sleep capbilty..

[Matthew Dillon]

:I often find myself wanting to write shell scripts that do:
:
:...
:
:while:
:do
: 	report results
: 	sleep -until_next 10
:done
:
:
:I have inplemented something like this with a crude
:shell function that sleeps up to 9 seconds to get to

    I think integrating such an option into /bin/sleep is an excellent idea.
    I have had need for such a feature myself on occassion.

:thirdly: is it worth making sleep a shell builtin?
:running sleep(1) every time is a lot of work for what
:we need.
:
:julian

    I don't think this is necessary.

					-Matt