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authorDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2014-04-17 11:29:34 +0200
committerDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2014-04-17 11:29:34 +0200
commite152cb818903f219a641c03b7c3ef290ed39a49d (patch)
tree579609067a5cf27be22980b6df4ee5dc34349b6f /miscutils/adjtimex.c
parenteb9f485b07b1823efbfddc773c899bd35dee62a6 (diff)
downloadbusybox-e152cb818903f219a641c03b7c3ef290ed39a49d.tar.gz
adjtimex: make its help text and printed data a bit less cryptic
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'miscutils/adjtimex.c')
-rw-r--r--miscutils/adjtimex.c25
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/miscutils/adjtimex.c b/miscutils/adjtimex.c
index c8816e9e7..534364a69 100644
--- a/miscutils/adjtimex.c
+++ b/miscutils/adjtimex.c
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@
//usage:#define adjtimex_trivial_usage
//usage: "[-q] [-o OFF] [-f FREQ] [-p TCONST] [-t TICK]"
//usage:#define adjtimex_full_usage "\n\n"
-//usage: "Read and optionally set system timebase parameters. See adjtimex(2)\n"
+//usage: "Read or set kernel time variables. See adjtimex(2)\n"
//usage: "\n -q Quiet"
//usage: "\n -o OFF Time offset, microseconds"
//usage: "\n -f FREQ Frequency adjust, integer kernel units (65536 is 1ppm)"
-//usage: "\n (positive values make clock run faster)"
//usage: "\n -t TICK Microseconds per tick, usually 10000"
+//usage: "\n (positive -t or -f values make clock run faster)"
//usage: "\n -p TCONST"
#include "libbb.h"
@@ -111,13 +111,13 @@ int adjtimex_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
}
if (!(opt & OPT_quiet)) {
- int sep;
+ const char *sep;
const char *name;
printf(
" mode: %d\n"
- "-o offset: %ld\n"
- "-f frequency: %ld\n"
+ "-o offset: %ld us\n"
+ "-f freq.adjust: %ld (65536 = 1ppm)\n"
" maxerror: %ld\n"
" esterror: %ld\n"
" status: %d (",
@@ -125,15 +125,14 @@ int adjtimex_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
txc.esterror, txc.status);
/* representative output of next code fragment:
- "PLL | PPSTIME" */
+ * "PLL | PPSTIME"
+ */
name = statlist_name;
- sep = 0;
+ sep = "";
for (i = 0; statlist_bit[i]; i++) {
if (txc.status & statlist_bit[i]) {
- if (sep)
- fputs(" | ", stdout);
- fputs(name, stdout);
- sep = 1;
+ printf("%s%s", sep, name);
+ sep = " | ";
}
name += strlen(name) + 1;
}
@@ -143,9 +142,9 @@ int adjtimex_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
descript = nth_string(ret_code_descript, ret);
printf(")\n"
"-p timeconstant: %ld\n"
- " precision: %ld\n"
+ " precision: %ld us\n"
" tolerance: %ld\n"
- "-t tick: %ld\n"
+ "-t tick: %ld us\n"
" time.tv_sec: %ld\n"
" time.tv_usec: %ld\n"
" return value: %d (%s)\n",