Chad Mynhier wrote:
> On 10/15/07, Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> Seems good.  Even great.
>>
>> However, a bit of effort has been made to provide "more user friendly"
>> output
>> for many utilities.  For example, df(1M):
>>
>>
>>      -h                          Like -k, except that  sizes  are
>>                                  in a more human readable format.
>>
>> Was any thought given to this?
>>
>> Just a poorly thought out question from my questionable mind...
>>
>> - jek3
>>     
>
> My original thought was to provide -u (microsecond) and -n
> (nanosecond) options to allow users to specify the resolution.  For
> these I would have left the default resolution at milliseconds for
> backwards-compatibility.  That was the closest I came to the -h/-k
> equivalent.
>   
That's makes sense to me, so why were the options dropped from the 
consideration?
> But I think you're actually asking for output like this:
>   
That's what I thought but only if '-h' had been provided on the command 
line.

> # ./ptime -m -p `pgrep syslogd`
>
> real    49h06m53s
> user    35.72ms
> sys     34.10ms
> trap    154.1us
> tflt    0
> dflt    0
> kflt    0
> lock    343h48m03s
> slp     245h34m21s
> lat     65.53ms
> stop    43.64us
> #
>
> Part of me wants to argue against this, given that order-of-magnitude
> differences jump out from the default output, but this wouldn't be
> changing the default, so my argument would have no teeth.
>
> I'll add this to the modifications.
>
> Thanks,
> Chad
>   
Stace

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