On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 03:34:33AM +0000, Christopher Maynard wrote: > For example, if a user wants to set a maximum file size, then I think it's > more intuitive to the user to specify and expect SI, powers of 10, units to > apply rather than the IEC, powers of 2, units. This might end up being a > bit strange on some OS's (Windows, for example) to see a 977KB file size for > file that's actually 1MB in size, but apparently at least one OS, Mac OS X > version 10.6 will now use MB for all file and disk sizes so that same 1MB > file will actually be correctly reported as such. This to me makes the most > sense, and so I'm in favor of changing the code to (and prefixes back to) SI > units. > > This could also be said of the capture buffer size, which is currently > incorrectly reported as MB (when it's really MiB). > > What do others think before I make any changes to SI units?
Please change to SI in these cases. Thanks Jörg -- Joerg Mayer <jma...@loplof.de> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
