On Thursday 03 June 2010 17:22:29 Oliver Albers wrote: > That's what my gut would tell me, yes. Nobody knows there even is a > difference. But nobody even cares.
If that was the case, there wouldn't be this discuss about this bug. People who know the difference care, as it adds confusion when reading the FAQ. People who do not care will read the value provided in the FAQ and go with that, not looking twice. To me, it states K is 1 kilobyte - which is 1000 bytes. But then it goes on to say it is 1024 bytes. So as I know that is incorrect, what is the value of K? Is it a typo in the docs, and it is in fact 1000 bytes, or did they mean kibibyte? See what I'm getting at? > Willow:~ albers$ ls -lah foo > -rw-r--r-- 1 albers staff 1,0K 3 Jun 18:21 foo > Willow:~ albers$ ls -lab foo > -rw-r--r-- 1 albers staff 1024 3 Jun 18:21 foo > Willow:~ albers$ uname -a > Darwin Willow.local 10.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.3.0: Fri Feb 26 > 11:58:09 PST 2010; root:xnu-1504.3.12~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 > > It is not just Windows. > > Olli 'K' is neither the prefix for kilobyte or kibibyte, so we don't know what they are meaning by that. That value could be rounded down (since it is only displaying to 1 precision).
