time - time functions for gawk
@load "time" time = gettimeofday() ret = sleep(amount)
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NAME
time - time functions for gawk
SYNOPSIS
@load "time"
time = gettimeofday()
ret = sleep(amount)
CAUTION
This extension is deprecated in favor of the timex extension in the
gawkextlib project. In the next major release of gawk, loading it will
issue a warning. It will be removed from the gawk distribution in the
major release after the next one.
DESCRIPTION
The time extension adds two functions named gettimeofday() and sleep(),
as follows.
gettimeofday()
This function returns the number of seconds since the Epoch as a
floating-point value. It should have subsecond precision. It
returns -1 upon error and sets ERRNO to indicate the problem.
sleep(seconds)
This function attempts to sleep for the given amount of seconds,
which may include a fractional portion. If seconds is negative,
or the attempt to sleep fails, then it returns -1 and sets
ERRNO. Otherwise, the function should return 0 after sleeping
for the indicated amount of time.
EXAMPLE
@load "time"
...
printf "It is now %g seconds since the Epoch\n", gettimeofday()
printf "Pausing for a while... " ; sleep(2.5) ; print "done"
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | text/gawk |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, filefuncs(3), fnmatch(3), fork(3),
inplace(3), ordchr(3), readdir(3), readfile(3), revoutput(3), rwar-
ray(3).
gettimeofday(2), nanosleep(2), select(2).
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com.
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NOTES
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This software was built from source available at
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source was downloaded from
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