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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: chrt: inconsistency in --help
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 11:24:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150609092412.GG1992@ws.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <716925135.onXIMLDpa0@merkaba>

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 10:37:46AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Suggestion:
> 
> 1) Either make chrt command parsing more flexible (preffered)

 Unfortunately we have to care about backward compatibility...

> 2) or or even and change set policy to
> 
> Set policy:
>   chrt [options] [-p] [<policy>] <priority> [<pid> | <command> [<arg>...]]

 Yes, I have modified --help output to this

> But well second option separates -p from pid. So maybe option 1 is the way 
> to go.

 It's not elegant, but unfortunately used for years and I don't think
 we want to make it more complex by any improvement.

    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-09  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-09  8:37 chrt: inconsistency in --help Martin Steigerwald
2015-06-09  9:24 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2015-06-11  9:03   ` Benno Schulenberg
2015-06-15 13:09     ` Karel Zak

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