Bug 1327260

Summary: pmie does not accept s for seconds
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Marko Myllynen <myllynen>
Component: pcpAssignee: Nathan Scott <nathans>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 23CC: brolley, fche, kenj, lberk, mgoodwin, nathans, pcp, scox
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-08-17 06:36:00 UTC Type: Bug
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:

Description Marko Myllynen 2016-04-14 15:30:48 UTC
Description of problem:
Unlike pretty much every other PCP client / component, pmie(1) does not seem to accept "s" denoting seconds. This is obviously not critical but would be nice for consistency.

Comment 1 Ken McDonell 2016-08-17 00:20:26 UTC
Marko, in which context are you looking for "s" as an abbreviation?

It works on the command line (-t, -S, -T, -O, etc) just like any other PCP command line tool.

In the pmie language, the "units" are reserved keywords "sec" or "second" or "secs" or "seconds" ... I'm reluctant to add "s" to this list because of possible symbol clashes, e.g. an existing rule

s = <my_favourite_expression>;

would break (that's just the way the pmie lexical scanner works) and if I was persuaded that this was acceptable (which I'm not) it introduces a rat's nest of follow-ons, like "m" for "min", "h" for "hour", ...

I'm inclined to suggest this be issue be closed as WONTFIX.

Comment 2 Marko Myllynen 2016-08-17 06:36:00 UTC
(In reply to Ken McDonell from comment #1)
> Marko, in which context are you looking for "s" as an abbreviation?

In the pmie language. But ...

> It works on the command line (-t, -S, -T, -O, etc) just like any other PCP
> command line tool.
> 
> In the pmie language, the "units" are reserved keywords "sec" or "second" or
> "secs" or "seconds" ... I'm reluctant to add "s" to this list because of
> possible symbol clashes, e.g. an existing rule
> 
> s = <my_favourite_expression>;
> 
> would break (that's just the way the pmie lexical scanner works) and if I
> was persuaded that this was acceptable (which I'm not) it introduces a rat's
> nest of follow-ons, like "m" for "min", "h" for "hour", ...

... this is fair enough, I'll close this one.

Thanks.