Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:43:39 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, krion@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, jkim@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/find find.1 function.c Message-ID: <20060601.154339.282836685.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060601212702.X79180@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <200605271827.k4RIRf7G078768@repoman.freebsd.org> <200606011709.28816.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20060601212702.X79180@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
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"Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> writes:
: On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
:
: > On Saturday 27 May 2006 02:27 pm, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
: >> krion 2006-05-27 18:27:41 UTC
: >>
: >> FreeBSD src repository
: >>
: >> Modified files:
: >> usr.bin/find find.1 function.c
: >> Log:
: >> Add the capability for a trailing scale indicator to cause the
: >> specified size to be read in the more familiar units of
: >> kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes and petabytes.
: >>
: > off_t may not be long long. I think you should do something like the
: > attached patch and you may just remove the comments.
:
: These names are wrong anyway.
: What you have are 2^10^{1,2,3,4,5} and that is
: {kibi,mebi,gibi,tebi,pebi}bytes [1].
:
: [1] http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
The 'bibibibibibibibibibi' byte stuff is silly. Historically that
usage is correct.
Warner
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