[CFR] Specify the lock(1) timeout unit

Ruslan Ermilov ru at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 21 10:06:40 PDT 2004


On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:32:08PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2004.10.21 14:37:10 +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> 
> > Here's a little patch that teaches lock(1) about timeouts specified in
> > seconds, hours, or days in addition to the minutes it currently assumes.
> > I could commit this in a week if there are no objections.
> 
> Wouldn't it be more natural to just append the time-unit type to the
> argument given to -t, e.g. "-t 10s" or "-t 10h".  That just seem like
> the more intuitive way to handle it to me...
> 
> Note: this is a suggestion, not an objection to the original patch.
> 
Yes, please.  :-)


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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