I'd like to package and maintain nosleep for Cygwin. nosleep runs a command while inhibiting the computer from sleeping or hibernating until the command finishes executing. By default nosleep just prevents the computer from going to sleep during idle periods. More aggressive options are available to inhibit sleep or hibernation, but these come with warnings and an onerous Disclaimer.
nosleep has been written originally for Cygwin, so it's not available in any Linux distros and needs to be voted on. Note that nosleep requires libargp, which is currently also in ITP for Cygwin [1]. License: GPLv3 Home page: https://launchpad.net/nosleep Author: Andrew E. Schulman <and...@alumni.utexas.net> <setup.hint> sdesc: "Run a command while inhibiting computer sleep or hibernation" ldesc: "nosleep runs a command while inhibiting the computer from sleeping or hibernating until the command finishes executing. By default nosleep just prevents the computer from going to sleep during idle periods. More aggressive options are available to inhibit sleep or hibernation, but these come with warnings and an onerous Disclaimer." category: Utils requires: libargp </setup.hint> [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-09/msg00071.html wget \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/nosleep/setup.hint \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/nosleep/nosleep-0.1.3-1.tar.bz2 \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/nosleep/nosleep-0.1.3-1-src.tar.bz2