beep/beep-main.c contains the magic number 300000U four times from lines 268 to 296 restricting, among others, the time for the delay -d and -D switches to 300 s or 5 min.
I used to use beep for simple remind-me-in-x-min tasks (like getting the pizza from the oven 🍕), but now that is not possible anymore (without some wrapper script etc. pp.). Also, calling usage_bail() was unhelpful to me in that case, because the documentation does not state this limit and the program still refuses to work with a perfectly acceptable (according to documentation) invocation.
Maybe I am missing something, but what was the reasoning behind this seemingly arbitrary limit? 🤔
(Also, thank you very much for picking up an unmaintained project 🥺👍)
beep/beep-main.c contains the magic number
300000Ufour times from lines 268 to 296 restricting, among others, the time for the delay-dand-Dswitches to 300 s or 5 min.I used to use beep for simple remind-me-in-x-min tasks (like getting the pizza from the oven 🍕), but now that is not possible anymore (without some wrapper script etc. pp.). Also, calling
usage_bail()was unhelpful to me in that case, because the documentation does not state this limit and the program still refuses to work with a perfectly acceptable (according to documentation) invocation.Maybe I am missing something, but what was the reasoning behind this seemingly arbitrary limit? 🤔
(Also, thank you very much for picking up an unmaintained project 🥺👍)