i have a quick question that's not about formatting. will all the man page be updated to explain what dflt, slp lat, and friends mean? ed
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:49:51AM -0700, Dan Price wrote: > On Tue 16 Oct 2007 at 08:40AM, Joseph Kowalski wrote: > > >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. > > > > > >But I think you're actually asking for output like this: > > > > > Uh, not really. > > > > I would be equally happy with your original thought about using "-u" > > and "-n". > > I'll claim responsibility for this: Chad originally proposed -u and -n, > but my comment was that this creates its own usability problem: the user > must now *discover* the fact that ptime has greater resolution, rather > than just supplying the user the higher precision result by default. > > As an aside, there's no difference in the way we gather the data-- only > in the way it gets printed, so literally this is an argument over > printf formatting :( > > -dp > > -- > Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp at eng.sun.com - > blogs.sun.com/dp > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-arc mailing list > opensolaris-arc at opensolaris.org
