Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:18:03 -0800 From: Davide Italiano <davide@freebsd.org> To: Will Andrews <will@freebsd.org> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r277570 - head/usr.bin/vmstat Message-ID: <CACYV=-HSU99V8MD%2B38Cgj9FP-ehhJ=RcxfPyqoFJSG5ySpEA5A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150123205617.GB56104@sol.firepipe.net> References: <201501231618.t0NGIeDv057991@svn.freebsd.org> <CACYV=-HthyZ061GSs_2=mNXa676we9MqSNVPcWRXur_Z6zD1xA@mail.gmail.com> <20150123205617.GB56104@sol.firepipe.net>
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Will Andrews <will@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:23:57AM -0800, Davide Italiano wrote: >> What's the rationale behind this change? > > The rationale was to match the clock used to the name (and implied intent) > of the variables used to store/manipulate the data. > > It's possible that 'uptime' is entirely the wrong term in vmstat, in which > case the naming used elsewhere in vmstat needs to be changed too. > > -- > wca I don't think this is a reason strong enough, we should rather go the other way around as already suggested. I would like to see this reverted. Thanks, -- Davide "There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved" -- Henri Poincare
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