Package: time Version: 1.7-23 Severity: normal
GNU "time" has a --portability flag to get the POSIX-mandated formatting of its output. The BASH "time" builtin is used in /bin/sh invocations and is POSIX-compliant. The combination of these features means that it is difficult to write portable shell scripts that examine the output of "time" but work under Debian. A workaround is to set the TIME environment variable to the POSIX format, but since other programs may use an environment variable named something as generic as "TIME" in other ways, one must be fairly selective about it; in any case, it's a gratuitous painful wart. The default behavior of "time" should be POSIX-compliant. A flag and/or environment variable could instead give the current non-standard behavior. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (150, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages time depends on: ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries time recommends no packages. time suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
