ntpd applet
Denys Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 11 03:17:12 UTC 2010
On Tuesday 10 August 2010 13:17, beebee at piments.com wrote:
> On 08/10/10 04:58, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > -N "nice myself"
> > is not documented because user can simply use nice to the same effect
> > (but -N does work)
>
> then shouldn't be documented?
>
> the fact the user could work around it's _apparent_ absence , does not
> seem like a reason to not document a working feature.
No, the reason is to not bloat --help with non-essential information.
> implying it is not there is a documentation error. When porting or
> debugging a situation that works on full linux it is important to know
> what does or does not need changing. Accurate doc is essential.
I imagine things are usually ported by trying to run stuff
and fixing what breaks, not by review of every script line-by-line.
ntpd -N wouldn't break, despite being undocumented, it'll work,
thus making porting a bit easier.
> If you are saying the feature is useless/unnecessary then maybe remove
> it and save a few bytes.
This will break ntpd -N.
> Either way the current situation would seem to be in error.
ok.
http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=f03fc7d77a5df53aae5eb2d02a49860dc2878da7
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