Re: [ksh93u+m] alarm timer function

On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 10:48:21 -0400, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

In ksh93u+ I'm using the built-in 'alarm' timer command.
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$ alarm --man
Usage: alarm [-r] [varname seconds]
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(The original 'alarm' feature may have been experimental
and not documented well, but it was nonetheless useful.)
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Just noticed in ksh93u+m that the 'alarm' timer command
doesn't seem to be available; I now get errors like
  "alarm: not found"
and
  timer.alarm: invalid discipline function
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Is there some substitute in ksh93u+m that will replace
that function from the original ksh? (Or something else
to do to get it working?) Or has that feature just been
abandoned in the "u+m" branch?

I'm not a ksh user, so don't know much about it. I recommend using the package
"at" for setting alarms and it's not shell dependent.
Regards, Dave Hodgins