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bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 12:43:12 -0700 |
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On 21/07/18 11:48, Wodry wrote:
> One can use binary prefixes (iB, e.g. MiB) with dd command, but that is
> not written in the help text.
>
> I just found out because I wanted to add support for binary prefixes
> since I did not know they are already supported.
>
> It's a hidden, but valuable feature, since I think, that M is binary is
> hard to remember and can easily lead to confusion.
>
> Much clearer is to use MiB. "M" is mentioned only for backwards
> compatibility in this patch.
>
> The parsing for binary prefixes is done in
>
> gnulib/lib/xstrtol.c
>
> so this is not dd specific.
MiB is less ambiguous to read, though somewhat less portable.
We should update truncate(1) etc. to be consistent if making this change.
thanks,
Pádraig
- bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes, Wodry, 2018/07/21
- bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes,
Pádraig Brady <=
- bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes, Wodry, 2018/07/21
- bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes, Wodry, 2018/07/21
- bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes, Pádraig Brady, 2018/07/21
- bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes, Wodry, 2018/07/22
- bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/22
- bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes, Wodry, 2018/07/22
- bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/22
- bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes, Wodry, 2018/07/22
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