Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:50:00 +0200 From: Johan van Selst <johans@stack.nl> To: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: small usr.bin/find patch Message-ID: <20090624095000.GA85397@mud.stack.nl> Resent-Message-ID: <20090624103326.GA88122@mud.stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <permail-20090624094151f0889e8400007f8d-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906172325310.36849@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <permail-20090624094151f0889e8400007f8d-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de>
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--ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Alexander Best wrote: > hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate > kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard > telling app developers what to use? It might be appropriate to use expand_number() here. This is what some other tools do as well and consistency between tools is "a nice thing". Ciao, Johan --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREIAAYFAkpB9sgACgkQaOElK32lxTvXqQCfQtpXdCz28C2PisSoOOwjYWQL k/sAn0+uQcs8x+ot2ZXWezBYh0L6eB2J =dSa7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv--
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