Re: How to document dimension units for virtual files?

[Michael Holzheu]

Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 11/08/2006 06:09:16 PM:

> On Wed, 8 November 2006 17:54:12 +0100, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> >
> > What about the following ...
>
> Awesome.  The next time someone flames me over this subject, I can
> simly refer to this file.
>
> One could nitpick that a) this applies to any interface, so it also
> includes kernel command line and module parameters and b) there are
> existing interfaces that interpret "kb" as 2^10 bytes, etc.  Maybe
> this could be noted somehow, but it's not too important imho.
>

a) Right, that is a more general "problem". But I am not sure, if I want
to solve/decide that.
b) I wanted to document the recommendations, I didn't want to
document what currently is done.

Michael

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