From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 04:21:02 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12239106564A for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:21:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grarpamp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com (mail-wi0-f172.google.com [209.85.212.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 988068FC15 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:21:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhj8 with SMTP id hj8so65905wib.13 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:21:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=EXGMNO4sLLXuJ22iaAKtXHlM8O1KF7QnD95HaNypwto=; b=WXBwekNgglEt0zlo1lN4m4f6OOtf4XYxxcF4J2wXyeARPVqRH2UwjTNSCjkbqA3vR6 jTl/UDs33/cYWeVtXx/d7oEjh0wDJgFCGZ4c6Ty/TWvybXY9/+Q0R48648eRx5lBW7Io d24Qbbd37EPAwUFmq3ZjjMbPeyHANNe/mKKAVtask4I9ijhxaU6HaH+g7GEczNe/a8Q1 EVhuED8WAYKwLSA8Jck002t00D29QDNwDxjLtghhkez/GySze27rYiLnvh22C66lbImg GYoMLnvDZtFPCGM4UI5MGr3Cnppu3VIwCUBoiKWG16/CIWhQBpvQ1FPQu59xR8WJal0Y /LOg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.207.27 with SMTP id m27mr2283299weo.42.1339734060548; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:21:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.7.105 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:21:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20120614081107.c0439718.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:21:00 -0400 Message-ID: From: grarpamp To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: `ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:21:02 -0000 >>> > The following creates a file with a size of 1024000002 (a gig) >>> > fseek(stdout, 1000000*1024, SEEK_END); >>> Nope :) What you have there is not actually called (anything). >> It would maybe be called a MKiB. :-) I'll buy that, if someone chips in the deuce :) > In SI units it is called a gigabyte. No, it's not called anything. > Everyone knows what he talking about so playing semantic > games is silly. Rockets crash due to assumptions and trivializing semantics. "That's why you never can stop learning in IT, and fighting bad habits in all imaginable areas. :-)" > Can we move on to real questions? :) Ok :)