> Would it be useful to add a bit of code to tst_test.sh to handle
> floating point?  The shell construct of '$((timeout * LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL))'
> can't handle floating point, but floating point could be done pretty easily
> with a callout to awk or bc.

> I'm willing to look at this and submit a patch.  But does the shell
> test system try to avoid dependencies on other utility programs (like awk or bc)?

> Maybe rounding timeouts up is preferred behavior anyway, so
> this is not needed.  What do you think?

[ Cc Joerg, Li and Cyril, who were involved in shell timeout ]
We spent quite a lot of time before we end-up with ceiling, I'd have to search
for the reasons. We also didn't think that it's a big problem to not being
precise on shell. But feel free to improve things. Just, generally we prefer to

wrote small C code instead adding new dependencies (bc etc) or trying to make
shell portable. Actually writing C parser would be few lines of code.