[Toybox] [PATCH] Clarify fallocate help text.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat Oct 8 22:27:58 PDT 2016


On 10/03/2016 04:23 PM, enh wrote:
>> I've tried hard to make toybox's behavior _consistent_, which in theory
>> means I shouldn't to be repetitive in the help text. (I don't usually
>> point out "-" means stdin or "--" terminates option parsing, for
>> example.). Truncate documents them because the truncate man page
>> documented them, but they're the same sufixes for any standard command
>> line numerical input. (grep -A accepts the suffixes, nice -n accepts
>> them... the results aren't meaningful and the range clipping would
>> object, but it'll parse them first in the common codepath.)
>>
>> Because of that I was tempted to move the explanation to "toybox
>> --help", but I don't expect most people would see it, and you've pointed
>> out people don't see it as a unified whole...
> 
> "toybox --help" does seem like the least worst choice (other than
> doing nothing).

Did commit cefc0a2183f5 resolve this, or is there more to do? (Cycling
through my open todo windows and wondering if this is still active...)

Rob



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