Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:28:25 -0700 From: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching to [KMGTPE]i prefixes? Message-ID: <BANLkTinQAwLCwZi7VXJKB90wn0kw0FvfHQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <D29C3B5E-5BB1-40B5-ACE3-7F560DCAE86D@bsdimp.com> References: <20110325002115.GA323@freebsd.org> <20110325015508.GA14565@freebsd.org> <20110325024658.GA19544@freebsd.org> <336A9ACD-29BF-41C9-BC25-917CC1E4587D@bsdimp.com> <20110325195325.GA69264@freebsd.org> <AANLkTinEcT__Wtc6LkSyqqMnQwuKVUbZC4dPZvZH_dSX@mail.gmail.com> <D29C3B5E-5BB1-40B5-ACE3-7F560DCAE86D@bsdimp.com>
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > How did you guys deal with programs like df that now need to do special buffer size hacks to get consistent results? I think it doesn't really matter - caller have to specify using IEC prefixes explicitly, so old binaries won't be broken. They must be updated to use the IEC prefixes. Cheers, -- Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net
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