Re: [Bug-time] GNU time

[Assaf Gordon]

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Hello,

On 2019-10-24 12:36 p.m., Сергей Кузнецов wrote:
> чт, 17 окт. 2019 г. в 08:11, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>>:
[...]
> Maybe also add %Td specifier, which will print signal's description or 
> something like it?
>
> e.g.:
>
> $ ./time -q \
>               -f "exit type: %Tt\nexit code: %Tx\nsig-spec:
> %Ts\nsig-num:%Tn\n" \
>                    ./tests/time-aux -S TERM -e 4
>         exit type: signalled
>         exit code:
>         sig-spec: TERM
>         sig-num: 15
>         sig-desc: Terminated

On 2019-10-24 12:40 p.m., Сергей Кузнецов wrote:
> ...I implemented it. > Need I to send you 'git diff' or what should I do?
The code has now been added to the master branch,
and will be included in the next release:
 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/time.git


As for adding a signal description:
How would that differ from the signal name (%Ts) ?
e.g., why is "Terminated" much better than "TERM"?

Also, it will need to be portable to non-linux operating systems,
so something similar to gnulib's "sig2str" module:
 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/lib/sig2str.c

The current (new) code does work on all BSDs, OpenSolaris and AIX and 
not just linux.

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regards,
 - asssaf