On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 10:16 AM Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/10/21 6:31 PM, enh via Toybox wrote: > > busybox has a -d that delays before proceeding. Annoyingly systemd also > > has a -d, but that's to disable writing a wtmp shutdown entry. > > I've mostly said SECONDS and then had toybox --help explain about the > fraction, > but I'm aware that users aren't necessarily getting that information. Hmmm. > Repeating the big long explanation everywhere that uses it seems less than > ideal > too. There's a todo item here I need to figure out. > yeah, though one reason i used DURATION rather than DELAY was because there's a few uses of that. personally, it's the places where we explain `-` as a filename that bug me. maybe some kind of #include mechanism for "things you ought to know, but might not"? > Also, option parsing is STILL getting --help subtly wrong: > > $ ./toybox halt --help > toybox: Not root (see "toybox --help") > heh, i was just about to look at that myself. i'll leave it if you're looking! > Sigh... > > Rob >
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