[Toybox] The cut -C test is failing because bionic's wcwidth() doesn't match glibc or musl.

[dmccunney]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 2:00 AM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> It's 4xSMP at 1.5 ghz, can have 8 gigs ram, and storage shouldn't be an issue
> either (Walmart is currently claiming to have a 2TB usb3 stick on sale for $12,
> and amazon says a 1TB sd card is $30. Can't vouch for either, but I bought a
> 512G sd card at Target that works fine so far?)

You are at the mercy of the media.  My  supplier for computer gear is
Micro Center, who has an outlet in NYC close to me by subway.  I
grabbed an MC branded USB3 256GB USB thumb drive on a recent visit as
an impulse purchase.  (I think it was $10.)  It behaved oddly.  (It
came formatted as FAT32 instead of exFAT, which was a "Huh?" moment,
but not the actual problem.)

Drive benchmarks said read speeds were comparable to similar drives,
but *write* speeds were an order of magnitude *slower*. Not a deal
breaker for me - my main use case is archival storage.  Start a write
to the drive and do other things, wait until it's done. I posted a
"beware" review on MC's site.

I saw that with a standard SD card back in the Palm OS days getting a
card for a Palm OS device that used them as external storage. It as so
slow on writes I thought the device had crashed and was about to
reboot  when running a diagnostic.  It was from a "budget" card line.
Diagnostics indicated the flash was actually made by Toshiba. Another
poster on a site indicated a different budget card had the same issue,
for the same reason.  The cards were being *sold* as storage for
digital cameras that used SD cards, and I thought about the issues
when the card could not *store* your digital photos as fast as you
could  shoot them.

I don't know who made the actual flash in the MC 256GB USB3 thumb
drive, but Toshiba is a reasonable guess.  (I have *no* idea why
Toshiba flash had that quirk and no one else's did.)

> Rob
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Dennis