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....)