<div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 09:08 Reindl Harald <<a href="mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net">h.reindl@thelounge.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Am 26.07.2018 um 05:20 schrieb George Xie:<br>
>> dealing internally with surch arbiatry numbers is still a differnt world<br>
>> than ouput it in a user-tool like "systemctl show" which could simply<br>
>> translate it to some meaningful string<br>
>> no user cares about UINT64_MAX in such outputs<br>
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> quoted from the manual: (systemctl show) "is intended to be used<br>
> whenever computer-parsable output is required. . Use status if you are<br>
> looking for formatted human-readable output."<br>
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arbitary numbers also don't help machines much and UINT64_MAX is a<br>
random value making no sense - really - something like -1 but why in teh<br>
world UINT64_MAX for something unset<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>UINT64_MAX *is* -1.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><p dir="ltr">Mantas MikulÄ—nas</p>
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