bup-tick(1)                 General Commands Manual                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
       originally 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 <apenwarr@gmail.com>.

Bup 0.34+                         2026-09-01                       bup-tick(1)