Re: dd (coreutils) 5.97 used power of 10 not 2 for calculating MB

[Olivier Delhomme]

Le Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:09:27 -0700, Eric Blake disait :

> Thanks for the report.  According to 'dd --help', "MB 1000*1000, M
> 1024*1024", so the result matches documentation.  However, some of the
> coreutils (such as ls) support --human-readable vs. --si to choose between
> power of 10^3 and power of 2^10, maybe it would be worth adding such an
> option to dd.

There was an old patch that I proposed a long time ago about that
against coreutils 5.0.91. Jim corrected it according to gnu standards
and I think it was then Ok (it is still pending - see the TODO file at
chapter "Changes expected to go in, someday.").

@sOOn,

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