Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote, on 16 Feb 2020: > > On 2/15/20 9:42 PM, Robert Elz wrote: > > > Let's design & implement something better, and then have that (eventually) > > standardised, rather than compromising the standard with this horror. There > > is of course, no reason that the shells that have chosen to copy ksh's > > extension cannot continue to do so, no matter how ugly and difficult it > > is to do. > > OK. Let's start with a proposal. The existing syntax will have to stick > around for backwards compatibility, of course.
In case you two don't read the teleconference minutes, in Thursday's meeting we decided to postpone further work on bug 267 for a month to allow you time to work on this new proposal. > (The simplest proposal is to replace the ksh/bash/mksh/zsh(?) `time' with > `ptime' and go from there.) The new name needs to be something that is unlikely to be in use by applications or users already. I think ptime is not a good candidate, as it is a likely choice for an existing script, function or alias name. -- Geoff Clare <g.cl...@opengroup.org> The Open Group, Apex Plaza, Forbury Road, Reading, RG1 1AX, England
