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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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In message: <20060601212702.X79180@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
            "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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