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authorMattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>2015-11-27 09:04:21 +0100
committerMattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>2015-11-27 09:04:21 +0100
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Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--COPYING2
-rw-r--r--Makefile47
-rw-r--r--doc/man/alarm.159
3 files changed, 104 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 44d7e08..4229a8f 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
alarm — Schedule an alarm for a program when starting it
-Copyright © 2014 Mattias Andrée (maandree@member.fsf.org)
+Copyright © 2014, 2015 Mattias Andrée (maandree@member.fsf.org)
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1a79dbd..c952847 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ DATA = /share
BINDIR = $(PREFIX)$(BIN)
# The resource path including prefix.
DATADIR = $(PREFIX)$(DATA)
+# The general documentation path including prefix.
+DOCDIR = $(DATADIR)/doc
+# The info manual path including prefix.
+INFODIR = $(DATADIR)/info
+# The man page path including prefix.
+MANDIR = $(DATADIR)/man
+# The man page section 1 path including prefix.
+MAN1DIR = $(MANDIR)/man1
# The license base path including prefix.
LICENSEDIR = $(DATADIR)/licenses
@@ -43,8 +51,18 @@ WARN = -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wdouble-promotion -Wformat=2 -Winit-self \
STD = c99
+
+.PHONY: default
+default: command
+
.PHONY: all
-all: bin/alarm
+all: command
+
+.PHONY: base
+base: command
+
+.PHONY: command
+command: bin/alarm
bin/alarm: obj/alarm.o
@mkdir -p bin
@@ -55,13 +73,34 @@ obj/%.o: src/%.c
$(CC) $(WARN) -std=$(STD) $(OPTIMISE) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<
+
.PHONY: install
-install: bin/alarm
+install: install-base install-man
+
+.PHONY: install-all
+install-all: install-base install-doc
+
+.PHONY: install-base
+install-base: install-command install-license
+
+.PHONY: install-command
+install-command: bin/alarm
install -dm755 -- "$(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)"
- install -m755 bin/alarm -- "$(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/$(COMMAND)"
+ install -m755 $^ -- "$(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/$(COMMAND)"
+
+.PHONY: install-license
+install-license:
install -dm755 -- "$(DESTDIR)$(LICENSEDIR)/$(PKGNAME)"
install -m644 COPYING LICENSE -- "$(DESTDIR)$(LICENSEDIR)/$(PKGNAME)"
+.PHONY: install-doc
+install-doc: install-man
+
+install-man: doc/man/alarm.1
+ install -dm755 -- "$(DESTDIR)$(MAN1DIR)"
+ install -m644 $< -- "$(DESTDIR)$(MAN1DIR)/$(COMMAND).1"
+
+
.PHONY: uninstall
uninstall:
@@ -69,6 +108,8 @@ uninstall:
-rm -- "$(DESTDIR)$(LICENSEDIR)/$(PKGNAME)/COPYING"
-rm -- "$(DESTDIR)$(LICENSEDIR)/$(PKGNAME)/LICENSE"
-rmdir -- "$(DESTDIR)$(LICENSEDIR)/$(PKGNAME)"
+ -rm -- "$(DESTDIR)$(MAN1)/$(COMMAND).1"
+
.PHONY: clean
diff --git a/doc/man/alarm.1 b/doc/man/alarm.1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc81977
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/man/alarm.1
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+.TH ALARM 1 ALARM
+.SH NAME
+alarm - Schedule an alarm for a program when starting it
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.BR alarm
+.IR DURATION
+.IR COMMAND
+.RI [ ARGS ...]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Schedules an
+.BR alarm (3)
+to best triggered after a specified
+.IR DURATION .
+The process than
+.BR execvp (3)
+into
+.IR COMMAND\ ARGS .
+.PP
+This means that
+.IR COMMAND
+will be killed by
+.BR SIGALRM
+after a selected
+.IR DURATION .
+.PP
+.IR DURATION
+must be a non-negative integer, no larger than 18h12m15s.
+Recognised patterns for
+.IR DURATION
+are:
+.TP
+*
+.IR SECONDS [s]
+.TP
+*
+.IR MINUTES m[ SECONDS s]
+.TP
+*
+.IR HOURS h[ MINUTES m][ SECONDS s]
+.SH RATIONALE
+This program is useful when testing programs for a limited
+duration. Especially when running in the background, or
+there is a chance of it locking the computer.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR alarm (3)
+.SH AUTHORS
+Principal author, Mattias Andrée. See the COPYING file for the full
+list of authors.
+.SH LICENSE
+Copyright \(co 2014, 2015 Mattias Andrée
+.br
+License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
+.br
+This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
+.br
+There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
+.SH BUGS
+Please report bugs to https://github.com/maandree/alarm/issues or to
+maandree@member.fsf.org