Weed-whacking sysctl(8)

Garrett Cooper gcooper at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 20 18:43:19 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Garrett Wollman
<wollman at hergotha.csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/20110120190703.H11630 at besplex.bde.org>,
> Bruce Evans writes:
>
>>Also, it's not Kelvin, but deci-Kelvin :-).
>
> If we're being pedantic, the name of the unit is the "kelvin",
> lowercase "k", and the derived unit is the "decikelvin", lowercase "k"
> and no hyphen.  The unit symbol is "K" (uppercase) for the base unit,
> "dK" for the derived unit.  All SI unit names are in lower case; only
> the symbols are (sometimes) capitalized if the unit is named after a
> proper noun.  (Thus the symbol for the second is "s"; the symbol "S"
> is for the Siemens, the unit of conductivity formerly called the
> "mho".)

<off-topic>
Tunables support mixed-case units incorrectly as well, i.e.
1. 'g' / 'G' -> 'giga'
2. 'm' / 'M' -> 'mega'
3. 'k' / 'K' -> 'kilo'
Something that Bruce brought up in another email thread with me.
</off-topic>

Thanks,
-Garrett


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