23 Nov
2013
23 Nov
'13
10:40 a.m.
On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 02:50:03 +0000, grarpamp wrote:
Why not just accept KB/sec, KiB/sec, GB/mo, GiB/mo in the config file?
Because KB/sec would be rejected as not conforming to either SI or IEC prefix specs.
Why so? The SI prefix spec only specifies that K means 1000, it does not limit the base units. (And neither bytes not bits are SI units.)
Andreas
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800