[tor-relays] Proper bandwidth units [was: Exit nodes on Gandi]

Sat Nov 23 10:40:05 UTC 2013

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