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

[Gordon Morehouse]

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Roger Dingledine:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 02:29:04PM -0800, Gordon Morehouse wrote:
>> Lunar:
>>> Gordon Morehouse:
>>>> Why not just accept KB/sec, KiB/sec, GB/mo, GiB/mo in the
>>>> config file?
>>> 
>>> That would be #9214 [1], implemented by CharlieB, shipped
>>> since tor 0.2.5.1-alpha.
>>> 
>>> [1] https://bugs.torproject.org/9214
>> 
>> Good, this is the most sensical behavior to the widest array of
>> people who type things into config files
> 
> Actually, this is alas not the case.
> 
> We now support gbits (1<<27) and gbytes (1<<30) in the torrc file,
> but we do not support "gib". Or I think more correctly, we say
> gbytes for what you want us to call gibs, and if you want to say a
> billion bytes, you need to type all the zeros.

I learned about the 'gib, kib' etc in wikipedia a while back - it'd be
best if the config file were extremely liberal in accepting what
people type, IMO.

Best,
- -Gordon M.


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