`ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

[Eitan Adler]

On 13 June 2012 23:11, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:33:50 -0400, grarpamp wrote:
>> > The following creates a file with a size of 1024000002 (a gig)
>> > fseek(stdout, 1000000*1024, SEEK_END);
>>
>> Nope :) What you have there is not actually called (anything).
>
> It would maybe be called a MKiB. :-)

In SI units it is called a gigabyte. The value 2^30 is called a
gibibyte. Everyone knows what he talking about so playing semantic
games is silly. Can we move on to real questions? :)

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Eitan Adler