[OE-core] [PATCH] busybox: enable fractional sleep arguments
Tom Rini
trini at konsulko.com
Fri Nov 18 20:22:05 UTC 2016
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 02:49:51PM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> Fractional durations (e.g. 0.5s) for the sleep command are useful and
> not terribly uncommon in practice, especially in scripts associated
> with test cases (e.g. mdadm, lttng-tools). Enable FEATURE_FLOAT_SLEEP
> by default in order to avoid having to patch every instance of a
> script using a fractional sleep.
>
> The busybox binary gains a few hundred bytes in text (armv5e shown):
>
> $ size -x busybox.nosuid.{before,after}
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 0x89382 0x71d 0x2250 572655 8bcef busybox.nosuid.before
> 0x8954e 0x721 0x2250 573119 8bebf busybox.nosuid.after
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch at mentor.com>
It's also something I've seen customer use as well in their scripts so
this would remove the need to add it to the local layer.
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
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Tom
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