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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: mkdir builtin and $'\0'
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:10:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150819131006.GA19074@chaz.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150819105250.00b56bb3@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>

2015-08-19 10:52:50 +0100, Peter Stephenson:
[...]
> [Is there any future (not right now, obviously) in a shell variable that
> overrides the date/time that's output, for debugging?  I can think of
> cases where this would be really useful for debugging output from
> scripts that include timestamps and you want to diff different
> versions.  You could freeze the time to the same value, then run
> both versions, and get a controlled difference.]
[...]

Note that there's a "faketime" tool (using LD_PRELOAD) that can
be used to fake a particular time (and/or speed of time) which
is quite handy for testing date/calendar/timezone related things.

-- 
Stephane


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-19 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-18  9:19 Stephane Chazelas
2015-08-18  9:49 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-08-18 11:11   ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-08-18 11:27     ` Peter Stephenson
2015-08-18 12:55       ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-08-18 13:24         ` Peter Stephenson
2015-08-18 14:21           ` Peter Stephenson
2015-08-18 15:07             ` Peter Stephenson
2015-08-18 15:18               ` Peter Stephenson
2015-08-18 15:19               ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-08-19  9:52             ` Peter Stephenson
2015-08-19 13:10               ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
2015-08-18 11:06 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-08-18 16:20 ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-08-18 16:37   ` Peter Stephenson
2015-08-21  6:20     ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-08-21  8:57       ` Peter Stephenson
2015-08-21 14:09         ` Peter Stephenson
2015-08-20 11:15 Recommend latex surgical gloves ED
2015-08-20 16:42 ` 5.0.9 / 5.1 agani (ws Re: Recommend latex surgical gloves) Peter Stephenson
2015-08-21  3:38   ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-09-04 13:44     ` mkdir builtin and $'\0' Oliver Kiddle

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