Print debug info size in bytes. #554
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du default to 1024 bytes as default unit, that's not desired as one can overwrite that with BLOCK_SIZE env variable.
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Quoting http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/du.html:
The same document kinda points out that -b is a non-standard extension. Whether it actually matters here ... I dunno if anybody is using dwz outside the Linux community, but it's a possible incompatibility that could be easily avoided by using -k instead, which is standard. |
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I bet it's non-standard due to --apparent-size option which -b enables. |
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No need to bet or guess, just look at the opengroup specification I linked. -B is just as non-standard as is -b. |
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...so if the point is to make the output independent of BLOCK_SIZE env variable (which is not part of the standard btw) then -k seems to be the only choice per standard. At least as of Linux coreutils, -k does override BLOCK_SIZE. |
By standard, 'du' defaults to 512 byte units, but this differs between implementations: GNU du defaults to 1024 unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set and also allows overriding via number of environment variables. It also supports various other ways of controlling the block size, but the only standard means to control the size is -k, and we really don't want to break portability for the sake of FYI statistics. Inspired by Marxim Liska's patch at in #554.
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Changed to report kilobytes instead in commit 62d901a, closing. |
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Thanks for the patch. |
du default to 1024 bytes as default unit, that's not desired
as one can overwrite that with BLOCK_SIZE env variable.