sebastian.kursch...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, October 2, 2010 8:27:52 PM UTC+2, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Sven Hartrumpf wrote: > > > Bob, thanks for fixing the bug I reported! > > > And good luck with getting GNU time 1.8 out :-) > > > > Yes, well, we will see! But I am very hopeful. :-)
Hope springs eternal. The problem is that the official GNU time maintainer isn't MIA. He will respond to email. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2013-02/msg00020.html But he has never made a release. The last release was by David J MacKenzie in 1996. http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/time/ Hope springs eternal though. > > > I wrote: > > > > rpm -q -f /usr/bin/time > > > > util-linux-2.17.2-5.3.x86_64 > > > > > > Just curious: how will your fix reach util-linux because > > > this is what distributions use (not GNU time directly, it seems)? > > > > It should. Since util-linux on SuSE uses GNU time as one of the > > components then I expect that it would eventually flow into it. Since > > time is such a small program I can understand why it would be bundled > > into a larger collection of other small programs. Note however that > > other distributions such as Debian and Red Hat package time into its > > own package. The way that it is packaged is not universal. > > It seems the patch hasn't made it into util-linux? I can't even seem > to find "time" included in the latest version of it (2.23). Anyway, > with the mentioned fix above I created my private patch, so thanks > for the information! At this point I would file a bug ticket against SuSE asking them to incorporate the current patches. I maintain patches for time-1.7 for Debian. These patches are available for viewing here: http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/time/1.7-24 Of which the two you are most interested in are these: http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/time/1.7-24/rusage-portability.patch http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/time/1.7-24/ru_maxrss.patch However the others are also important and useful. However I very quickly tried to find the current util-linux on SuSE and it appeared to me that time is not included in the current packaging. It may be split into a separate package now. Not sure though. It really needs a SuSE person to look at the current system and determine the what and where. I am obviously familiar with Debian but not so much about SuSE. This could use some SuSE specific expertise. Bob
