On 2021/03/10 06:50, Glenn Golden wrote:
Pádraig, Philippe, Paul -
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 9 Mar 2021 19:51:45 +0000]:
On 09/03/2021 12:58, Philippe Bénézech via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
Dear maintener,
I found a reproducible bug in df utility, installed in debian stable
$ df --version |head -1
df (GNU coreutils) 8.30
$ cat /etc/debian_version
10.8
df displays G instead of GM as unit size for Gigabytes in power of 1000
(but the value is correct)
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The documentation says:
-h, --human-readable
print sizes in powers of 1024 (e.g., 1023M)
-H, --si
print sizes in powers of 1000 (e.g., 1.1G)
How is this a bug?
If the idea is to print a scaling factor and use the minimum
space necessary (1 byte for the prefix), it seem to be doing
exactly what it is documented to do.
Side rant:
Using decimal prefixes with a binary unit (1B=2**3 bits)
defeats the purpose of using a common multiplier for metric.
Since computers use base-2, similar prefixes should be used.
Just because the disk-industry bought and paid for the
ruling to use base-10 doesn't mean that memory comes in
units of 1-million, 1-billion or 1-trillion bytes or
that disk space is organized in decimal units.
I find it amazing that it is the French who most
often vocalize support for the capitalistic-backed
decision.
*sigh*
Second, minor, side rant:
Would be nice if more attention was paid to fixing
mailers encoding "Pádraig" and "Bénézech" as "P�draig"
and "B�n�zech"
*double sigh*
:-)