Switching to [KMGTPE]i prefixes?

[Alexander Best]

On Thu Mar 24 11, Warner Losh wrote:
> The new flag is '0x0f' but it should be '0x40' since that's a bit field...

thanks for the hint. i've updated that particular line in libutil.h.

> 
> I did some doodling with this as well in my tree, and came up with something similar.  I had an ifdef that forced the new mode, but I was never happy with the results.
> 
> Warner
> 
> 
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:55 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
> 
> > here's a rough draft. it introduces a new flag called HN_IEC_PREFIXES so
> > nothing should get broken and each utility can decide for itself whether to use
> > the SI binary, SI decimal or the IEC certified prefixes.
> > 
> > another possibility would be to #ifdef the extra code. this would offer the
> > possibility to turn the new code on or off without having to adjust any
> > utilities. of course this behaviour should be disabled by default in order to
> > maintain compatibility.
> > 
> > cheers.
> > alex
> > 
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