On Tuesday, 08 June 2004, at 18:42:46 -0400, alex@pilosoft.com wrote: > That does makes sense for entering data, however, for display of results, > they need to be in one format. > That of units, their use and meaning is a common topic at some places, including linux-kernel. There seems to be several international standards with respect to units, both base-2 (2^n) an base-10 (10^n). Maybe you have around units(7), a man page that gives a bit of information on the subject. In my opinion, data should always be shown correct, that is, 1048576 will be eiher 1024 kibi (1024 Ki), or 1048.576 kilo (1048.576 k), but not anything else. The possible change in suffixes could break existing scripts in a (hopefully) minor way, but changing rate specification in "tc" should be thought for longer, the breakage here can be important. Just my two euro cents ;-) -- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Sid (Linux 2.6.7-rc1) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
