2011/1/4 John P. Rouillard <rou...@cs.umb.edu>:
>
> Hi Risto:
>
> In message <aanlktikpqrrfg2rshokhyynl8ob9wjojmvlfdldxs...@mail.gmail.com>,
> Risto Vaarandi writes:
>>Also, I have made substantial changes to the man page and although the
>>overall structure is roughly the same, a lot of content is completely
>>rewritten. The old man page was simply too old and patched in too many
>>places. Hopefully things look much more clean now, and the
>>documentation reads better :)
>
> In the man page there is this section:
>
>  create [<name> [<time> [<action list>] ] ]
>              Create  a  context with the name <name>, lifetime of <time> sec-
>              onds, and empty event store. [...]
>              If  an already existing context is recreated with
>              create, its lifetime is extended for <time> seconds, its  action
>                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>              list is reinitialized, and its event store is emptied.
>
>
> is that true? If the context foo has 30 seconds left in its life and
> I execute:
>
>  create foo 60
>
> does foo expire after 90 seconds or after 60 seconds?

after 60 seconds from the current time. By the word extending I meant
that the total lifetime of the context would be 90 seconds, since it
has already existed for 30 seconds before 'create' was invoked.

>
> If it's 90 seconds, rewording it like:
>
>   its remaining lifetime is extended for <time> seconds
>
> makes it a bit more explicit. If it's only 60 seconds:
>
>   its lifetime is (re)set to <time> seconds

would "it's remaining lifetime is set to <time> seconds" sound OK?

kind regards,
risto

>
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>                                -- rouilj
> John Rouillard
> ===========================================================================
> My employers don't acknowledge my existence much less my opinions.
>

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