[arch-projects] [netcfg] [PATCH 1/4] Include timestamp in DEBUG message

[Henrik Hallberg]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 12:58:57AM +0200, Jouke Witteveen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Henrik Hallberg <henrik at k2h.se> wrote:
> >  function report_debug {
> > -    checkyesno "$NETCFG_DEBUG" && echo "DEBUG: $*" >&2
> > +    checkyesno "$NETCFG_DEBUG" && echo "DEBUG $(date -Ins): $*" >&2
> 
> Isn't that a bit too verbose? What about:
> echo "DEBUG ${SECONDS}s: $*"

Absolute time is useful when cross-checking with e.g. logs.  When
looking for time thiefes among a dozen lines of output over as many
seconds, like I did for these patches, fractions of a second were
useful.

By all means, if I ever were to do this again, it'd be easy to add the
above then and there.

/ H