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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:11:17 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
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cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: New libutil function: parse_capacity(3).
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In the last episode (Sep 17), Giorgos Keramidas said:
> On 2004-09-16 20:42, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/parse_capacity.patch
> > Any comments before committing?
> 
> Is it intentional that it works even for "negative" capacities?
> 
> : $ ./foo
> :        -10 fffffffffffffff6 |        -10 fffffffffffffff6
> :     -10240 ffffffffffffd800 |       -10k ffffffffffffd800

I'd call that a feature.  Imagine a "resizefs" command, where you would
enter a positive number to grow, and a negative one to shrink.

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	Dan Nelson
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