From owner-cvs-all Sun Jun 4 10:20: 2 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B217037B905; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 10:19:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p03-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.132]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id CAA22585; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 02:19:39 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <393A8D8D.8395867C@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 02:10:37 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Garrett Wollman , "John W. De Boskey" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/df df.1 df.c References: <22036.960073573@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > BZZZZZT! > > > > That's called `BLOCKSIZE=1G df', thank you very much. > > BZZZZT. You could do df -k with `BLOCKSIZE=1K df' too but I don't see > you complaining about the -k flag or advocating for its removal. This > is just John's shorthand for gigabytes and probably not an unexpected > evolution in light of today's drive sizes; thank god we got to skip > over -m for megabytes. > > FWIW, I didn't like the idea of another flag much either (we gonna add > -g to du(1) next? It has a -k flag too) but I couldn't argue against > it from a POLA or consistency standpoint (there is -k AND there is > BLOCKSIZE, enough said) so, unlike you, I didn't attempt to shoot John > down with some hypocritical argument and simply approved the change > with a sigh. Alas, what does -g offers that is not suitably handled by -h? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@yet.another.bsdconspiracy.org Hmmm - I have to go check this. My reality assumptions are shattered. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message