On Friday, April 14, 2017 07:40:57 PM Ngie Cooper wrote:
> 
> > On Apr 14, 2017, at 18:49, Rodney W. Grimes 
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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?

The du manpage does at least.

> humanize_number(3) from libutil uses IEC units.

Note that it is optional though.  You can use flags to decide what you want
and the default is to not use IEC.  ls -h uses humanize_number but not with
IEC units.  In particular, there are flags to control the scaling and
prefixes used: HN_DIVISOR_1000 and HN_IEC_PREFIXES.  The default is to use
power-of-2 scaling with non-IEC prefixes (so KB == 1024 by default).
Currently nothing in base uses HN_IEC_PREFIXES.

(I see you already reverted the printf, just wanted to point out that the
humanize_number behavior is configurable.)

-- 
John Baldwin
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