14 Jun
2013
14 Jun
'13
10:12
On Jun 14, 2013, at 11:26 , Linda Walsh wrote:
... all quantities ... shall be rounded up to the next higher unit. Wait--- 25G could be 24.0000001G? so that would leave 19.5G, why wouldn't that round up to 20G?
posix has always been braindead and is getting worse.
POSIX does not say anything about GB (at least according to the man page installed by Suse. It only speaks about units of 512 bytes and 1024 bytes. Rounding of other units (e.g. GB) is up to GNU. A. -- Ansgar Esztermann DV-Systemadministration Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Abteilung 105