dtrace: give %'d a chance?

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 19 14:20:53 UTC 2020


On 19/11/2020 15:31, Ash Gokhale wrote:
> I'm not a fan of reading nanosecond timestamps ; however This would add work to
> downstream scripts  that have to toss the prettyprint later; 
> s|.,()<whatever>||g  downstream. Think of the wee awk scripts. 
> Could we gate the behaviour behind an environment DTRACE_LOCALE or whatever?
> 
> Eh It's getting harder to live in the C locale anyway, the immigration  rules
> seem to be tightening. 

Sorry, but you don't have to use %'d.
You can keep using %d.

> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:29 AM Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org
> <mailto:avg at freebsd.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     what do people think about adding
>         setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "");
>     to dtrace's main function?
> 
>     My primary interest is to (pretty-)print some numbers with a thousands
>     separator.
> 
>     Not sure if any other LC_ types are worth bothering.
> 
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