On 11 September 2018 at 05:20, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > >> >> I'm still convinced that this will confuse our users and to me it would >> >> be more logical if this denotes the number of times the pattern should >> >> be repeated, with e.g. negative numbers denoting infinite. >> > >> > Sounds reasonable. Let's change this semantics as you propose. >> > >> >> In particular I expect to have to explain why my driver expects that you >> >> write 0 in the file named "repeat" to make it repeat and 1 to make it >> >> not repeat. >> >> Hm, so there are some cases we need to make clear. >> 1) If negative numbers present infinite, so what's the meaning of number 0? >> 2) What we should show for users if repeat number is negative, just >> show negative numbers or one string "infinite"? > > I'd say just -1 is infinite, anything else is error. > > And yes, reading it should just display -1. OK. Thanks. -- Baolin Wang Best Regards
