Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 20:28:19 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, thepish@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/time time.1 time.c Message-ID: <19980726202819.A29443@zappo> In-Reply-To: <199807241443.AAA05108@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 12:43:35AM %2B1000 References: <199807241443.AAA05108@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 12:43:35AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> >Furthermore, the energies wasted in this discussion should be redirected
> >to more productive activities, like reviewing and handling PRs.
>
> OK, the patch was not suitable for committing verbatim, due to spelling
> errors ("premissions"), style bugs (redeclaration of opt* ...) and
> inconsistency of the new args with truss(1) and gnu time(1).
Is no one going to bother fixing this? It seems to me, that given
our occasional griping about Linux incompatibilities, we should
not be introducing our own gratuitous incompatibilities.
Unless I couple people object, I plan to fix this. As an added
bonus, I'll even provide free spell-checking services to phk (I'm not
sure I want to know what "premissions" are necessary to use these
new facilities. :-(
Beyond just being compatible, this will reduce bug reports from bash
users "How come the -a and -f flags don't work for time(1)?" ...Once
bash adds support for its own time(1)'s options, that is (already in
newer versions??).
[Please don't bother respond "I would prefer you took the options
out." --- such responses will be conveniently ignored :-]
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