- add ash read -t timeout support. initial code provided by Tim Yamin on Oct/21/2004 on the busybox mailing list. Edited his code a little to keep syntax highlighers happy and make it optional when CONFIG_ASH_TIMEOUT is defined

git-svn-id: svn://busybox.net/trunk/busybox@9837 69ca8d6d-28ef-0310-b511-8ec308f3f277

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/shell/Config.in b/shell/Config.in
index bdba40d3b..1a3c388a4 100644
--- a/shell/Config.in
+++ b/shell/Config.in
@@ -53,6 +53,17 @@ config CONFIG_ASH_JOB_CONTROL
         help
           Enable job control in the ash shell.
 
+config CONFIG_ASH_TIMEOUT
+        bool "  Enable read timeout support."
+        default n
+        depends on CONFIG_ASH_JOB_CONTROL
+        help
+          This option provides read -t <seconds> support.
+
+          read builtin which allows the function to pass control back 
+          if no character input is read from the terminal within a set
+          number of seconds.
+
 config CONFIG_ASH_ALIAS
         bool "  Enable alias support"
         default y