[OpenAFS-devel] Brief proposal on numbers

Christopher D. Clausen cclausen@acm.org
Fri, 2 Nov 2007 17:00:50 -0500


Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> wrote:
> Steve Simmons wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 2, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Dale Ghent wrote:
>>
>>> Not to nit pick, but the code should detect suffixes of k|K, m|M,
>>> g|G, and t|T to preclude the need of a -h flag when setting the
>>> quota. -h should only be needed when viewing quota via fs lq, and
>>> should also be extended to 'vos examine'
>>
>> Feel free. If I were worried about nits, I'd have implemented first,
>> then asked questions. "He who writes the code makes the actual
>> decisions" or something to that effect.
>>
>> I did think about a -h flag on output and really like the idea, but
>> as has been said on other suggestions here, that's a different issue.
>
> I would love something like a -h flag, but -h is already taken by
> -help.

Good point.

Call it -humanreadable.  Then -hu should suffice.

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