Subject: Re: format_bytes() [was part of allocsys() discussion]
To: None <lukem@cs.rmit.edu.au>
From: Ken Nakata <knakata@itpjp.co.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/10/1999 10:27:51
On Sun, 09 May 1999 23:07:48 +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> e.g, given len of 9, we get;
>
> bytes result
> ----- ------
> 99999 `99999'
> 100000 `97 KB'
> 66715648 `65152 KB'
> 252215296 `240 MB'
It's more of a nit-picking than an objection, but I thought it was a
generally accepted convention to write the digits immediately followed
(i.e. without white space) by the unit name (i.e. KB, MB, etc).
Ken