Re: [pcp] pmval -i vs pmstore -i

[Marko Myllynen <myllynen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 2016-05-10 12:40, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> On 2016-05-10 03:39, Ken McDonell wrote:
>> On 10/05/16 09:12, Nathan Scott wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>
>>>> pmval and pmstore are the two clients which allow specifying the
>>>> targeted instances with -i. pmval, like most other clients also accept
>>>> arguments in this manner:
>>>>
>>>> $ pmval kernel.all-load -i "'1 minute'"
>>
>> I believe this to be the side-effect of GNU getopt(3) ... I personally
>> think this "flexibility" is sloppy, ill-conceived and not necessary.
>>
>> I would much prefer to concentrate on the form ...
>>
>> $ pmval -i "'1 minute'" kernel.all-load
>>
>> which matches the original design and implementation (of Unix, not just
>> PCP).
> 
> The PCP zsh completions I just posted shows to the reason why the
> admittedly sloppy way is sometimes useful:

In case this was left open, here's the link to the commit:

http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git;a=commit;h=d74ef3fd6928431c5a594dcfbcf86b9abfd88c8b

Thanks,

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Marko Myllynen