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.

But I think you're actually asking for output like this:

# ./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

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