bup-tick(1) bup-tick(1)
NAME
bup-tick - wait for up to one second
SYNOPSIS
bup tick
DESCRIPTION
bup tick waits until time(2) returns a different value than it origi-
nally did. Since time() has a granularity of one second, this can cause
a delay of up to one second.
This program is useful for writing tests that need to ensure a file date
will be seen as modified. It is slightly better than sleep(1) since it
sometimes waits for less than one second.
EXAMPLES
$ date; bup tick; date
Sat Feb 6 16:59:58 EST 2010
Sat Feb 6 16:59:59 EST 2010
BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite.
AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun ]8;;mailto:apenwarr@gmail.com\apenwarr@gmail.com]8;;\
Bup 0.33.7 2025-01-11 bup-tick(1)
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