From owner-cvs-all Fri Nov 15 2:21: 0 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A417337B401; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 02:20:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamberg.it.uu.se (hamberg.it.uu.se [130.238.9.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C8343E9C; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 02:20:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@csd.uu.se) Received: (from ertr1013@localhost) by hamberg.it.uu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA24723; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:20:35 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:20:35 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Harti Brandt Cc: Matthew Dillon , "M. Warner Losh" , sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG, silby@silby.com, njl@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c Message-ID: <20021115102034.GA19384@student.uu.se> References: <200211150944.gAF9irxa003000@apollo.backplane.com> <20021115105019.C2812-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021115105019.C2812-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:02:04AM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > MD> I think you are missing the point. If you need language support, > MD> the program should not be compiled with a mini C library. It's > MD> that simple. > MD> > MD> Consider: Does /bin/sleep need language support? > > As sleep currently stands it has a hard coded decimal point '.' and it has > an english usage message. This may and probably should change (esp. the > '.'). Then it will need language support. You can of course always say: if The '.' should *NOT* change. If it became locale-dependent, then any scripts that use sleep(1) would behave differently depending on the locale used. I would consider that to be a Bad Thing. You might as well change the name of the sleep(1) command itself to whatever it would be in the local language, which would make it somewhat non-trivial to write portable scripts. > you're gonna use Unix you should speak english... (Personally, I never > change my language settings away from the default (english) settings and > don't want my error messages in my local language, but I know, there are > people that care, because they have *real* users). This I agree with. > > I did not look through the programs in /bin, but I expect all of them > have at least a usage(). -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message