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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:28:25 -0700
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From: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
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Subject: Re: Switching to [KMGTPE]i prefixes?
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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