Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 11:19:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/df df.1 df.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006041112200.543-100000@green.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200006040057.RAA57658@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > How about just adding a generic '-b blocksize' option. For example, > '-b 1g'. Implement the size suffix in the argument to the option, > not as the option itself. > > And I really hate the 'BLOCKSIZE=K' thing too. What the frig is so > wrong with requiring a '1' in there? It could be because, when I think of a counting type (which is what the $BLOCKSIZE variable specifies), I think, "In what unit is it counting?". You think, "In what unit and how many of given unit is it counting?". Both are equally valid forms of thinking. My ~/.profile has the line "BLOCKSIZE=K; export BLOCKSIZE" in it. I'm very comfortable with how that's written, because I think of it in terms, "What unit do I want my blocks written in?". If you think of it in the terms, "What is the byte size that I want blocks written in?", you use "BLOCKSIZE=1K" to mean "1 * 1024 bytes". Both seem right to me! Disclaimer: I don't know how you think; I only know how I think. I can presume that many other people think in the same way as either of us. > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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