This portion of the code-review thread is off-topic for pkg-discuss. If it's really worthwhile to continue this units of measurement discussion, would you please move it to a more appropriate place?
comp.std.internat, alt.math.recreational, and alt.fishing.(trawl?) on USENET all seem vaguely relevant. Thanks, -j On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 07:57:44PM +0100, Chris Ridd wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > The most glaring example is GNOME itself -- part of OpenSolaris 2008.05. > > > > As such, I consider it completely logical to adopt the new standard. > > I have a 38694318 byte file here (emacs-22.2.tar.gz) and both > /usr/bin/ls -lh and /usr/gnu/bin/ls -lh both report it as "37M". > > If you work it out, they're both using 1024*1024 for a megabyte. If they > used 1000*1000 it would mean they'd report 38 instead. > > So using these funny units would not be consistent with existing > OpenSolaris tools. Unsurprisingly I don't think this is a bug with those > tools! :-) > > Cheers, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
