[procps] Re: w and "make check"
- From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: procps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:59:27 -0400
On Friday 29 June 2012 20:42:49 Alfredo Esteban wrote:
> Craig, you are right, uptime test fails too.
>
> The problem is in load average. In Spanish, official decimal mark is comma
> (from Spanish Academy rules). In current w output load average decimal mark
> is comma (I suppose sprintf takes it according to locale value, see
> whattime.c:93) but dejagnu test assumes dot as decimal mark.
>
> In fact, look at the w output in a Spanish system:
>
> 02:17:45 up 2:42, 3 users, load average: *0,20, 0,56, 0,81*
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
> alfredo pts/0 :0.0 23:36 57:09 0.26s 0.26s bash
> alfredo pts/1 :0.0 23:38 *0.00s 0.81s 0.00s w*
> alfredo pts/2 :0.0 23:41 57:50 0.33s 0.33s bash
>
> There are dot and commas as decimal marks.
>
> The solution is choosing one of them and be consistent. The rest of the
> output is not translated and 99.999% of Spanish native speakers understand
> a number with dot as decimal mark so in my opinion we should use dot as
> decimal mark.
why not just run the tests in LC_ALL=C ?
-mike
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