New libutil function: parse_capacity(3).

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:14:16AM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:04:45AM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> +> > I implemented parse_capacity() function which can be use to convert a
> +> > string with a human-readable capacity value to a off_t value.
> +> > 
> +> > It can be used by utilities like:
> +> > 
> +> > 	% truncate -s 8g test
> +> > 	# mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 16M
> +> > 
> +> > Patch can be found here:
> +> > 
> +> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/parse_capacity.patch
> +> > 
> +> > Any comments before committing?
> +> 
> +> Methinks you could probably come up with a better name, since
> +> "engeneering number mode" (using K, M, T, etc) is used for bandwidth,
> +> for instance, not just for `capacity'.  IMHO.  Making it that user can
> +> easily guess its name from already-there humanize_number(3).
> 
> Fell free to suggest a better one:)
> I talked about this name with few people before name was choosen and
> this is the list of proposals:
> 
> 	- dehumanize_number(),

This one is good.

> 	- parse_humanized_humber(),

And this one.
> 
> :)
> I really don't want to start bikeshed about function name here.

Neither do I.  I just wanted to point out that `capacity' probably isn't
the best choice.

./danfe