Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:20:35 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG, silby@silby.com, njl@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c Message-ID: <20021115102034.GA19384@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20021115105019.C2812-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> References: <200211150944.gAF9irxa003000@apollo.backplane.com> <20021115105019.C2812-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:02:04AM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > MD> I think you are missing the point. If you need language support, > MD> the program should not be compiled with a mini C library. It's > MD> that simple. > MD> > MD> Consider: Does /bin/sleep need language support? > > As sleep currently stands it has a hard coded decimal point '.' and it has > an english usage message. This may and probably should change (esp. the > '.'). Then it will need language support. You can of course always say: if The '.' should *NOT* change. If it became locale-dependent, then any scripts that use sleep(1) would behave differently depending on the locale used. I would consider that to be a Bad Thing. You might as well change the name of the sleep(1) command itself to whatever it would be in the local language, which would make it somewhat non-trivial to write portable scripts. > you're gonna use Unix you should speak english... (Personally, I never > change my language settings away from the default (english) settings and > don't want my error messages in my local language, but I know, there are > people that care, because they have *real* users). This I agree with. > > I did not look through the programs in /bin, but I expect all of them > have at least a usage(). -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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