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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Holy shit 😱 (unplugs everything from mains... waits in terror in a corner...)

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T. Hex
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Wow, that is an unhelpful error message. It could have told you it was expecting a number. It turns out that -i is short for "interval" and expects a number, whereas -I is used to specify an interface.

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Aniki 🌱🌿reply
lemm.ee

This exactly. And because this is open-source, its super easy to track this down. I searched for the source of the error message:

https://github.com/iputils/iputils/blob/3400f3a740942064a545f02aabcf68e234733297/ping/ping.c#L237

see this is ping_strtod function - so search for that function name and the first hit is the '-i' case:

		case 'i':
		{
			double optval;

			optval = ping_strtod(optarg, _("bad timing interval"));
			if (isless(optval, 0) || isgreater(optval, (double)INT_MAX / 1000))
				error(2, 0, _("bad timing interval: %s"), optarg);
			rts.interval = (int)(optval * 1000);
			rts.opt_interval = 1;
		}
			break;
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bleistift2
feddit.de

It’s actually a technical term in language theory – a term that cannot be produced by the language, but is still considered part of the ‘universe’ (i.e., the set of all terms) is called ‘garbage’ or ‘junk’.

Since I can’t find a source online to verify this claim, this might just have been the case in my courses…

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damiumreply
programming.dev

"Invalid" or "unparseable" are more understandable descriptors in normal language. I don't think I ever heard of garbage/junk being used for that in language theory but it may be domain specific usage.

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krnl386reply
lemmy.ca

I think descriptive and useful error messages are OK to report as enhancements. They don’t have to be functional bugs.

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Delilah (She/Her)reply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

There might be a reason it was never fixed. Something stupid like a lot of 30 year old scripts relying on this out come. Hope not, you're right that error message is ass

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0xb
lemmy.world

-Me talking to people on twitter after nov 22 and before leaving

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