From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows; U; AIIEEEE!; Win98; Windows 98; en-US; Gecko masquerading as IE; should it matter?; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217 Description of problem: /usr/bin/time (make sure you get the right one!) outputs useless information even without "--verbose" option. It is interspersed with useful output on stderr. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): time-1.7-27 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1./usr/bin/time false 2. 3. Actual Results: Command exited with non-zero status 1 0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+141minor)pagefaults 0swaps Expected Results: 0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+141minor)pagefaults 0swaps Additional info:
Created attachment 121431 [details] Only outputs juicy information about exit status if --verbose set This bug was first submitted in 2002.
No strong opinion from me on what should be output, but this should hopefully also be upstream and integrated there. Have you tried submitting this also into a new GNU release of this package? Thanks a lot for the patch, Florian La Roche
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
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Fedora Core 4 is now completely unmaintained. These bugs can't be fixed in that version. If the issue still persists in current Fedora Core, please reopen. Thank you, and sorry about this.
Applicable to Fedora Core 6. Sorry about this.
Applicable to Fedora Core 8. This bug was first submitted in 2002.
JW, your patch has been applicated, thanks a lot. Fixed in rawhide, time-1.7-33.fc9. RR