On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 9:11 AM Stephen Hemminger
<step...@networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 19:42:28 -0700
> Yousuk Seung <ysse...@google.com> wrote:
>
> > +int get_time(unsigned int *time, const char *str)
> > +{
> > + double t;
> > + char *p;
> > +
> > + t = strtod(str, &p);
> > + if (p == str)
> > + return -1;
> > +
> > + if (*p) {
> > + if (strcasecmp(p, "s") == 0 || strcasecmp(p, "sec") == 0 ||
> > + strcasecmp(p, "secs") == 0)
> > + t *= TIME_UNITS_PER_SEC;
> > + else if (strcasecmp(p, "ms") == 0 || strcasecmp(p, "msec") ==
> > 0 ||
> > + strcasecmp(p, "msecs") == 0)
> > + t *= TIME_UNITS_PER_SEC/1000;
> > + else if (strcasecmp(p, "us") == 0 || strcasecmp(p, "usec") ==
> > 0 ||
> > + strcasecmp(p, "usecs") == 0)
> > + t *= TIME_UNITS_PER_SEC/1000000;
> > + else
> > + return -1;
>
> Do we need to really support UPPER case.
But that's ALWAYS been the case in the 32 bit version of code above.
Imagine how many former VMS and MVS hackers you'd upset if they had to
turn caps-lock off!
> Isn't existing matches semantics good enough?
But that's the existing case for the 32 bit api, now replicated in the
64 bit api. ? I think the case-insensitive ship has sailed here. Can't
break userspace.
Well.. adding UTF-8 would be cool. We could start using the actual
greek symbols for delta (δ) and beta (β) in particular. It would
replace a lot of typing, with a whole bunch more shift keys on a
single letter, fit better into
80 column lines, and so on, and tc inputs and outputs are already
pretty greek to many.
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