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Interface inconsistency, use of intelligent defaults.

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Message #19 received at 17505 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 17505 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, coreutils <at> tlinx.org
Subject: Re: bug#17505: Interface inconsistency, use of intelligent defaults.
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:19:33 +0100

On 05/16/2014 11:01 AM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2014, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> The attached patch changes the output to:
>>
>>   $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=256M count=2
>>   2+0 records in
>>   2+0 records out
>>   536870912 bytes (512 MiB) copied, 0.152887 s, 3.3 GiB/s
> 
> Thanks!
> What about just "512 M" which looks IMO better, is a valid input unit 
> and is explained in the man page.

That would be less clear I think since in
standards notation, 512M is 512000000.
Also adding the B removes any ambiguity
as to whether this referred to bytes of blocks.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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