On Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 09:08 Reindl Harald <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Am 26.07.2018 um 05:20 schrieb George Xie: > >> dealing internally with surch arbiatry numbers is still a differnt world > >> than ouput it in a user-tool like "systemctl show" which could simply > >> translate it to some meaningful string > >> no user cares about UINT64_MAX in such outputs > > > > quoted from the manual: (systemctl show) "is intended to be used > > whenever computer-parsable output is required. . Use status if you are > > looking for formatted human-readable output." > > arbitary numbers also don't help machines much and UINT64_MAX is a > random value making no sense - really - something like -1 but why in teh > world UINT64_MAX for something unset > UINT64_MAX *is* -1. > -- Mantas Mikulėnas
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