Is nice broken? FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 26 14:17:21 EET 2005 # nice -n 5 date nice: Badly formed number.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:54:55 +0200, Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr> wrote:> Is nice broken? > > FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 26 14:17:21 EET 2005 > > # nice -n 5 date > nice: Badly formed number.$ uname -v FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Feb 27 10:36:40 CET 2005 {snip} $ nice -n 5 date Sun 27 Feb 2005 23:59:37 CET - -- G. Stewart - gstewart@bonivet.net The most difficult years of marriage are those following the wedding. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCIlEfK5oiGLo9AcYRAv3xAJ9at0vdXPzyP/iBHsMzEkT2dcyDCACgpd// NRUo/3lTzrG3EItQD3UB2l8=1tSr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:54:55AM +0200, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote:> Is nice broken? > > FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 26 14:17:21 EET 2005 > > # nice -n 5 date > nice: Badly formed number.> nice -n 5 datenice: Badly formed number.> which nicenice: shell built-in command.> /usr/bin/nice -n 5 dateSun Feb 27 15:04:36 PST 2005 See 'man tcsh' for more. Kris -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050227/34f5c2c1/attachment.bin
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:02:28 -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> wrote:> > $ uname -v > > FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Feb 27 10:36:40 CET 2005 {snip} > > $ nice -n 5 date > > Sun 27 Feb 2005 23:59:37 CET > > Yes, but you weren't using the csh shell.True. I was using bash (that's what 5 years of using Linux does to you...) If the bug appears with one shell but not with another, then surely the bug is in the shell, no? $ echo $SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash $ echo $BASH_VERSION 3.00.0(1)-release $ nice -n 5 date Mon 28 Feb 2005 00:06:32 CET $ csh %nice -n 5 date nice: Badly formed number. - -- G. Stewart - gstewart@bonivet.net Profanity is the one language all programmers know best. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCIlQRK5oiGLo9AcYRAhjBAJwKlzIUXKW4t9MQI4cK3mmbgxGnXgCdG8b9 PsdaZqrnpfp/YJN5gecAjJk=vJ+I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sunday, 27. February 2005 23:54, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote:> Is nice broken? > > FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 26 14:17:21 EET 2005 > > # nice -n 5 date > nice: Badly formed number.csh has a builtin nice command, with a different syntax than nice(1). -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050228/d0b2f434/attachment.bin