> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:26:05AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:47:04AM +0000, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote: > > > Module Name: src > > > Committed By: erh > > > Date: Tue Mar 15 03:47:04 UTC 2011 > > > > > > Modified Files: > > > src/lib/libc/gen: Makefile.inc > > > Added Files: > > > src/lib/libc/gen: commaize_number.3 commaize_number.c > > > > > > Log Message: > > > PR#7540, add a commaize_number function, which inserts comma into a string > > > of digits to make it more readable. This is soon to be used in /bin/ls. > > > > Wouldn't a flag for humanize_number be a much better approach for this? > > Also, this doesn't belong into libc. > > There is also the point that the ' printf modifier is supposed to do > this if the current locale has a thousand separator. As such, I would > like to see this reverted and done properly.
i concur. fortunately, you also missed bumping the the libc minor so this can go away as a bad build issue... .mrg.