Hi Jean, May 25 Jean-Edouard Babin wrote:
> So, I removed the never flags and improved the behavior of time_clean > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Alex van den Bogaerdt > <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Tobias Oetiker" <[email protected]> > > To: "Alex van den Bogaerdt" <[email protected]> > > Cc: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 8:32 AM > > Subject: Re: [rrd-developers] Discuss regarding Ticket 263 > > > >> I agree that 0 could serve as a value for undefined since rrdtool > >> curently does not let you use dates before 1980 when creating an > >> rrd (this is an arbitrary choice in the code and could be removed > >> with a very short patch). In 1.5 we shuld be able todo this at > >> least for platforms using 64bit dates. > >> > >> In general I think it is a sub optimal solution to use inband > >> signaling ... here we can get proper out of band signaling without > >> any disadvantage ... so I welcome this. > > > > By all means, do it, like I said: just my 2ct :) > > > > I do not remember it very well, it has been years ago, but just know that I > > did the work with 0 actually meaning false. Please make sure not to overlook > > any tests that may be in the code, easily overlooked and then you have a > > bug. I actually quite like the never flag, since in view of time switching to 64bits I would rather have no special cases in the 'value' stream ... I have merged a mix between v1 and v2 of your patches to trunk cheers and thanks tobi > > > > cheers, > > Alex > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rrd-developers mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-developers > > > > > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch [email protected] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ rrd-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-developers
