From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 1 18:27:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E7A1065694; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:27:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C9CC8FC0C; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E331FFC37; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C66C784525; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:27:26 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Alexander Best References: <20100831180103.GA92584@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:27:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20100831180103.GA92584@freebsd.org> (Alexander Best's message of "Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:01:03 +0000") Message-ID: <86fwxt5ng1.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: expand_number() for fetch'es -B and -S switches X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:27:28 -0000 Alexander Best writes: > just having a quick look around to see, if anybody would be interested in > fetch -B and fetch -S accepting humanized numbers using expand_number()? I can understand it for -B, but not for -S, since in the common case (by 1023 to 1, assuming a random distribution) the argument to -S can not be expressed in [kMGTEP]B. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no