Switching to [KMGTPE]i prefixes?

Xin LI delphij at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 23:28:26 UTC 2011


On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> How did you guys deal with programs like df that now need to do special buffer size hacks to get consistent results?

I think it doesn't really matter - caller have to specify using IEC
prefixes explicitly, so old binaries won't be broken.  They must be
updated to use the IEC prefixes.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net


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