[Toybox] [PATCH] Clarify fallocate help text.

enh enh at google.com
Mon Oct 10 11:53:05 PDT 2016


On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> 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...)

yeah, i think what's already committed is the best choice for now.

> Rob



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