Re: [PATCH 1/2] seq: don't allow --equal-width option with infinite FIRST and LAST

[Pádraig Brady]

On 07/26/2014 07:06 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> seq(1) could not determine the width of large values toward INF
> values.  Therefore, specifying -w is useless in such a case.
> 
> * src/seq.c (main): Output an error diagnostic when the -w option
> is specified together with non-finite values for FIRST or LAST.
> * tests/misc/seq.pl: Add tests.
> * NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention the change.

We already restrict -w to be incompat with --format.
However that's an invariant aspect of seq invocation.
One might have a script that took the end point as a parameter,
which would now fail.  I've a slight preference for the
existing behavior of ignoring -w in this case, like we
do for hex inputs for example.

thanks,
Pádraig.