Le Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:18:12 -0800, Paul Eggert disait : > My kneejerk reaction is that there's a lot of complexity there. Can't > we make it simpler? Why are there so many options? Normally, for > example, "human" and "si" are mutually exclusive alternatives, so why > should one specify both "human" and "si"?
Thank you for your reply,
I agree those options are a bit confusing as are the dd options at first.
Yes "human" and "si" are mutually exclusive alternatives to be used
with the "--dbs" option.
The "--display" option is here to respond to 3 wishes :
1. when the option is not used nothing changes
2. used with "human" parameter the classic output is turned
into a human readable format
3. used with "quiet" parameter it turns off the output (stated
a long time ago here :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165045).
So may be the "human" parameter confused you and will confuse others.
I can change this to a "notgeek" parameter ;) May be we can find
something in between.
> > ./dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=512k count=123 display=human dbs=si
> > 65M+0 bytes in
> > 65M+0 bytes out
> > 64487424 bytes (65M) copied, 0,001492 s, 44,0G/s
>
> Here, the "65M" is repeated. That seems redundant. Come to think of
With the patch you can still choose to display this last line or not as
the option "status=noxfer" is still valid.
> it the whole "bytes in/bytes out/bytes copied" thing is redundant. If
> we're going to change the format, surely there's a better way to
> change it.
Then you could add a new parameter to the "--display" option in order
to add a new way of displaying the "whole thing".
> Also, why does this style omit the space between the number and the
> units? The current style has a space there. That is the usual SI
> style (see <http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html> and
> look for "space between the numerical value and the unit symbol"). It
> would be more consistent with SI practice to report the quantity as
> "65 MB" and the transmission rate as "44,0 GB/s". For powers of two
> formats it should be "65 MiB" and "38,0 GiB/s" (or whatever).
Are my patches concerned by this ? I use the functions you did write in
the human.c file. (sorry for this long link below)
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnulib/lib/human.c?rev=1.34&root=gnulib&view=markup
> > echo $DD_DISPLAY_BLOCK_SIZE
>
> All other things being equal it's better to avoid environment
> variables for stuff like this.
In fact I was doing this to keep coherence with your code in human.c.
You use getenv and check some block size variable. I was thinking that
one may find useful to set a particular environment variable for dd block
size instead of using continuously the "--dbs" option. Anyway, this is very
easy to remove and to add it later if necessary.
--
Olivier Delhomme : http://blog.delhomme.org/ [fr]
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