On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 09:16:16PM -0400, J William Piggott wrote:
>
>
> On 03/17/2015 05:57 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 04:47:27PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> >> "When in this state, bit 6 (the bit that is set in the mask 0x0040)
> >> of the kernel's time_status variable is *unset*."
> >
> > Yes, this is more readable (at least for me:-).
>
> I explained to Mr Schulenbuerg that I wrote it that way for layman users.
> Are they going to understand 'the bit that is set in the mask 0x0040'?
I have doubts it will be readable for layman users at all
independently on used words :-) Now it's at least readable for
advanced users. If you want to make it really readable for layman
users than add and example to the man page.
> What does that even mean? What does 'mask' have to do with it? It could
> simply say "the bit that is set by binary 0x0040"
> How does that differ from saying the binary 64's bit?
>
> Using hex will help the average user how?
>
> I used decimal because adjtimex displays the status variable as a decimal
> number:
>
> adjtimex -p
> status: 8193
>
> adjtimex -p
> status: 8257
>
> Which one is synchronized?
$ echo $((8193 & 0x0040))
0
$ echo $((8257 & 0x0040))
64
and frankly it's adjtimex mistake that it does not provide the
information in more human readable way.
Karel
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