-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Ondřej Vašík on 9/9/2009 2:19 AM: > Hello, > as requested via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511188 , it > would be nice to clarify default blocksize used by du in manpage/--help > output. Although I closed that bugzilla as notabug, further > communication via private emails convinced me to propose that change to > upstream. > As it breaks translation strings, I guess it would be better to postpone > commit after 7.6 (if accepted).
The default block size depends on POSIXLY_CORRECT (which requires 512, not 1024) and on BLOCK_SIZE (which the user can set to a different size). Maybe a better thing to do would be adding a blurb about environment variables that affect block size. Also, df and ls need the same treatment, whatever we decide to do. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqnkCYACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCwbQCgpmYUx57LtL+D+1eSxEzkKBN8 JYIAniCCMPSZ7WJb4KDeEGx0nrAijgYi =yuS5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
