By making them unsigned comparing them with other sizes is less likely
to trigger compiler warnings regarding signed/unsigned comparisons.
After all sizes (i.e. size_t) are generally assumed to be unsigned, so
these should be too.
Prompted-by: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/17345#issuecomment-709402332
Inside format_bytes, we return NULL if the value is UINT64_MAX. This
makes some kind of sense where this has some other semantic meaning than
being a value, but in this case the value is both a.) not the default
(so we definitely want to display it), and b.) means "infinity" (or
"max" in cgroup terminology).
This patch adds a small wrapper around format_bytes that can be used for
these cases, to avoid the following situation:
[root@tangsanjiao ~]# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/workload.slice/memory.low
max
[root@tangsanjiao ~]# systemctl show workload.slice -p MemoryLow
MemoryLow=infinity
[root@tangsanjiao ~]# systemctl status workload.slice | grep low:
Memory: 14.9G (low: (null))
After the patch:
[root@tangsanjiao ~]# systemctl status workload.slice | grep low:
Memory: 15.1G (low: infinity)
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
timex::time::tv_usec and timex::freq can have different sizes
depending on the host architecture. On x32 in particular,
it is 8 bytes long while the long int type is only 4 bytes
long. Hence, using li as a format specifier will trigger
a format error. Thus, introduce a new format specifier
PRI_TIMEX which is defined as PRIi64 on x32 and li
everywhere else.
We don't have plural in the name of any other -util files and this
inconsistency trips me up every time I try to type this file name
from memory. "formats-util" is even hard to pronounce.
