Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] utils: Deprecate inexact fractional suffix sizes

[Eric Blake]

On 2/23/21 11:20 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 02:44:38PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> The value '1.1k' is inexact; 1126.4 bytes is not possible, so we
>> happen to truncate it to 1126.  Our use of fractional sizes is
>> intended for convenience, but when a user specifies a fraction that is
>> not a clean translation to binary, truncating/rounding behind their
>> backs can cause confusion.  Better is to deprecate inexact values,
>> which still leaves '1.5k' as valid, but alerts the user to spell out
>> their values as a precise byte number in cases where they are
>> currently being rounded.
>>
>> Note that values like '0.1G' in the testsuite need adjustment as a
>> result.
>>
>> Since qemu_strtosz() does not have an Err** parameter, and plumbing
>> that in would be a much larger task, we instead go with just directly
>> emitting the deprecation warning to stderr.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> I'm not a fan of this patch, but am proposing it for discussion purposes.
> 
> Likewise. I'm *not* in favour of this patch.

Glad we're in agreement.  Consider this one dropped, and I will queue
1-3 through my NBD tree.

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