Thank you for the links to the older bugs. I'm still of the opinion that introducing base 10 output, in the realm of files that are always stored in base 2 sized blocks, is a mistake that only confuses people using dd unnecessarily.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 12:37 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 2025-01-21 07:59, Chris Ely wrote: > > I'd > > much rather not see the base 10 numbers at all > > No matter which of the two numbers we display, people preferring the > other number will complain. This topic has come up before, multiple > times, with people commenting at lennnngth. See: > > https://bugs.gnu.org/17505 > https://bugs.gnu.org/22277 > > I rarely see transfer rates in anything other than SI units. When > companies market hardware, for example, they invariably use GB/s rather > than GiB/s because this makes their transfer rates look higher. So like > Pádraig I'm dubious about changing the transfer-rate line to use base > 1024 only. > > More generally, any such proposed patch shouldn't be just to the code: > it should explain specifically how the patch would affect dd's behavior, > and this explanation should include changes to the documentation and the > NEWS file. As things stand I don't know how the patch addresses the > motivation of avoiding SI units. > > [1]: > > https://www.lifestyleasia.com/hk/entertainment/gaming/nintendo-switch-2-announcement-and-updates-news/ >
