On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 6:18 PM Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/21/21 2:56 PM, enh via Toybox wrote: > > (I was looking at this code because I was looking at the output in a bug > > report, and wasn't sure what `up 1:09` meant. It's annoying that -p is > > a lot more readable, but doesn't include load averages, otherwise I'd be > > tempted to move Android's bugreports over to `uptime -p` so that no-one > > would ever have to scratch their heads about this again...) > > I have just made Denys Vlasenko sad. > i didn't understand what you meant here until i looked at taking another update :-) > Rob > > (Not that I feel THAT bad about it since the move from bash 4.4.2 to 5.0.3 > BROKE > THREE of my "TEST_HOST=1 make test_sh" regression tests. Grumble grumble > compatibility with a moving target. We need an actual bash _standard_.) > it's not just bash either. a lot of tools change their human-readable text, or change their spacing or whatever. the more i think about -p though, the more ironic it seems: it's explicitly the "pretty" human-readable form ... yet the default form is so weird that the human-readable form is probably _easier_ to parse with a regex anyway! speaking of humans: someone just sent me a change to make strerror(3) text like "Try again" be "Try again (EAGAIN)" [ https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/bionic/+/1833622] and -- once they've fixed the tests i think exist and will be broken by this -- i'm tempted to say "unusual, but a good idea nonetheless"... > _______________________________________________ > Toybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net >
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