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| author | scivision <scivision@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-02-14 18:38:59 (GMT) |
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| committer | scivision <scivision@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-02-14 18:38:59 (GMT) |
| commit | 615ba911c4ecaacb6b16f4b85205779541953d3c (patch) | |
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Help: cmake(1): sleep can have floating point value
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diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst index e48ecd9..76dc883 100644 --- a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst +++ b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst @@ -1080,11 +1080,18 @@ Available commands are: situations instead. Use ``--`` to stop interpreting options and treat all remaining arguments as paths, even if they start with ``-``. -.. option:: sleep <number>... +.. option:: sleep <number> .. versionadded:: 3.0 - Sleep for given number of seconds. + Sleep for ``<number>`` seconds. ``<number>`` may be a floating point number. + A practical minimum is about 0.1 seconds due to overhead in starting/stopping + CMake executable. This can be useful in a CMake script to insert a delay: + + .. code-block:: cmake + + # Sleep for about 0.5 seconds + execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E sleep 0.5) .. option:: tar [cxt][vf][zjJ] file.tar [<options>] [--] [<pathname>...] |