Re: New behavior proposal --halt -% with job killing

[Ole Tange]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:

> How about
> allowing --halt be given multiple times, with each invocation overriding
> certain aspects of the behaviour requested so far. Then one could do
>
> --halt 25% --halt 2
>
> with --halt 25% --halt 1 being the same as --halt 25% by
> itself. Encountering --halt 0 would restore the default behaviour.
>
> I really prefer when any command-line option can be overridden (or reset
> to the default) by a later option

Agreed.

I am not fond of the repeating argument, though.

How about:

  --halt 2,25% == --halt 25%,2

Then --halt <<whatever>> would override that.

> (instead of the
> error-prone process of trimming the current list of options, where one
> has to be careful with --halt=25% versus --halt 25% etc.).

Are you aware that --foo X is the same as --foo=X ?

> Not sure my proposal is better - just thinking out loud.

And keep the ideas coming. The more ideas we get on the table the
better a solution we will find.


/Ole