I agree. Either adapt the parser to be locale aware (see localeconv(3)) or document that tools must be run in the C locale. But don't try to play Pokémon with separators. It'll blow up horribly.
Please revert. Yours, Robert Clausecker Am Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 11:14:10AM +0200 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav: > Gleb Smirnoff <[email protected]> writes: > > commit 77a201b1705dbd97ea9ebe5b25b1d4ddac8a7d38 > > Author: Gleb Smirnoff <[email protected]> > > AuthorDate: 2026-07-17 00:49:55 +0000 > > Commit: Gleb Smirnoff <[email protected]> > > CommitDate: 2026-07-17 01:40:03 +0000 > > > > ministat: parse comma used as decimal delimiter > > > > This allows to use output of '/usr/bin/time -ao foo' as direct input to > > ministat(1). > > > > While here make diagnostic message more verbose. > > This is wrong. What if delim is ","? The correct solution is to either > run your time command with LANG=C, or post-process the output. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected] > > -- () ascii ribbon campaign - for an encoding-agnostic world /\ - against html email - against proprietary attachments
