GNU bug report logs - #60583
Support for new SI prefixes R, Q

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 21:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Coreutils bugs <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Support for new SI prefixes R, Q
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 13:11:46 -0800

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Building on Pádraig's Gnulib patches of November, I installed the 
attached to add support to Coreutils for the new SI prefixes R and Q.

It'll be a while before 'df -h' outputs them, as I'm not expecting file 
systems in the ronnabyte range soon, given that the total amount of data 
storage in the world is still less than a yottabyte, and given that 
we'll need 128-bit integers support all this consistently. Still, the 
new R and Q prefixes are supported by 'sort' and 'numfmt' as-is.
[0001-build-update-gnulib-submodule-to-latest.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
[0002-ls-adjust-to-Gnulib-renaming.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
[0003-numfmt-add-support-for-new-SI-prefixes.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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