On Tuesday 10 August 2010 13:17, [email protected] wrote: > On 08/10/10 04:58, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > -N "nice myself" > > is not documented because user can simply use nice to the same effect > > (but -N does work) > > then shouldn't be documented? > > the fact the user could work around it's _apparent_ absence , does not > seem like a reason to not document a working feature.
No, the reason is to not bloat --help with non-essential information. > implying it is not there is a documentation error. When porting or > debugging a situation that works on full linux it is important to know > what does or does not need changing. Accurate doc is essential. I imagine things are usually ported by trying to run stuff and fixing what breaks, not by review of every script line-by-line. ntpd -N wouldn't break, despite being undocumented, it'll work, thus making porting a bit easier. > If you are saying the feature is useless/unnecessary then maybe remove > it and save a few bytes. This will break ntpd -N. > Either way the current situation would seem to be in error. ok. http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=f03fc7d77a5df53aae5eb2d02a49860dc2878da7 -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
