svn commit: r316938 - head/sbin/savecore

[Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)]

> On Apr 14, 2017, at 19:40, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 14, 2017, at 18:49, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Friday, April 14, 2017 07:41:48 PM Ngie Cooper wrote:
>>>> Author: ngie
>>>> Date: Fri Apr 14 19:41:48 2017
>>>> New Revision: 316938
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/316938
>>>> 
>>>> Log:
>>>> savecore: fix space calculation with respect to `minfree` in check_space(..)
>>>> 
>>>> - Use strtoll(3) instead of atoi(3), because atoi(3) limits the
>>>>   representable data to INT_MAX. Check the values received from
>>>>   strtoll(3), trimming trailing whitespace off the end to maintain
>>>>   POLA.
>>>> - Use `KiB` instead of `kB` when describing free space, total space,
>>>>   etc. I am now fully aware of `KiB` being the IEC standard for 1024
>>>>   bytes and `kB` being the IEC standard for 1000 bytes.
>>> 
>>> I will just rant lightly that no one actually uses this in the real world.
>>> 
>>> Good lucking finding a "16 GiB" DIMM on crucial.com or a 4Kin drive.  A
>>> kilobyte is a power of 2.  The End.
>>> 
>>> (Next up we'll have to rename 4k displays to
>>> 4k<insert arbitrary and unrelated letter here>)
>> 
>> Do we use KiB, MiB, GiB,... any place else in the system?  I cant think of
>> a place we do this, so please, lets not start doing this here?
> 
> humanize_number(3) from libutil uses IEC units.
> 
>> Yes, these are newer standards, perhaps some day we should make a global
>> switch to them, but lets not start mixing and matching things.
> 
> I understand and agree. I’m not 100% sold on that one way or another, but since I was going to redo the number representation in save core with humanize_number(3), because reading `<really-long-int>KiB` is not ideal usability wise, and I don’t want to reinvent the wheel normalizing numbers and printing out the unit.

*unit. —> *unit, KiB seemed like a logical next step after discussing it at long length in the CR.

-Ngie
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