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[bug#44460] Add copyright lines
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#44460] Add copyright lines |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:29:19 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> * Still not normalized - how can I search for just the child processes
>>> associated with a particular command?
>>
>> Like:
>>
>> guix processes | recsel -e 'ClientCommand ~ "xyz"' -p ChildProcess
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Actually what does “normalized” mean in this context?
>
> Excellent question. I was thinking along the lines of database
> normalization. The default output has multi-valued fields for child
> processes, so the idea is to make them their own record set. Does that
> make sense?
Yes it does! Initially I wondered if it was a term used in recutils,
but apparently it’s not.
> An aside - Probably to be entirely honest about normalizing the output,
> locks really would be in a separate record set too.
Yeah.
> Another challenge is making sure the user can understand what
> "normalized" means. I am not sure readers of the manual/cli help will
> be able to infer what it means from context. On the other hand, it is
> such a small use case that it seems imbalanced to provide a lot of
> background for the term "normal". What do you think?
Sure.
Thinking more about it, to me the appeal of recutils is that it’s both
human- and machine-readable. But here we end up having a specific
machine-readable variant. But yeah, maybe that’s unavoidable.
>>> I wouldn't be opposed to splitting ChildProcess into ChildPID and
>>> ChildCommand. I would like it best if that change was made in addition
>>> to adding the normalized version, since the normalized version allows
>>> more functionality.
>>
>> I would think it’s OK to break compatibility on just these
>> “ChildProcess” fields.
>
> Ok. Would it be ok if I put that in a separate commit?
Yes (you mean in addition to ‘-f normalized’, right?).
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- [bug#44460] [PATCH] processes: Optionally normalize recutils output., John Soo, 2020/11/04
- [bug#44460] processes: Don't normalize Locks, John Soo, 2020/11/05
- [bug#44460] Fixup the output of Session, John Soo, 2020/11/05
- [bug#44460] Add copyright lines, John Soo, 2020/11/06
- [bug#44460] Add copyright lines, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/11/10
- [bug#44460] Add copyright lines, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/11/12
- [bug#44460] Add copyright lines, John Soo, 2020/11/12
- [bug#44460] Add copyright lines,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- [bug#44460] Add copyright lines, John Soo, 2020/11/13
- [bug#44460] Add copyright lines, John Soo, 2020/11/13
- bug#44460: Add copyright lines, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/11/29