[Toybox] [PATCH] uptime: trivial modernization.

[enh]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 6:18 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 9/21/21 2:56 PM, enh via Toybox wrote:
> > (I was looking at this code because I was looking at the output in a bug
> > report, and wasn't sure what `up  1:09` meant. It's annoying that -p is
> > a lot more readable, but doesn't include load averages, otherwise I'd be
> > tempted to move Android's bugreports over to `uptime -p` so that no-one
> > would ever have to scratch their heads about this again...)
>
> I have just made Denys Vlasenko sad.
>

i didn't understand what you meant here until i looked at taking another
update :-)


> Rob
>
> (Not that I feel THAT bad about it since the move from bash 4.4.2 to 5.0.3
> BROKE
> THREE of my "TEST_HOST=1 make test_sh" regression tests. Grumble grumble
> compatibility with a moving target. We need an actual bash _standard_.)
>

it's not just bash either. a lot of tools change their human-readable text,
or change their spacing or whatever.

the more i think about -p though, the more ironic it seems: it's explicitly
the "pretty" human-readable form ... yet the default form is so weird that
the human-readable form is probably _easier_ to parse with a regex anyway!

speaking of humans: someone just sent me a change to make strerror(3) text
like "Try again" be "Try again (EAGAIN)" [
https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/bionic/+/1833622] and --
once they've fixed the tests i think exist and will be broken by this --
i'm tempted to say "unusual, but a good idea nonetheless"...


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