Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia () gmail com>

> On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 1:06 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:06:29 -0400, Jay Ashworth said:
> [snip]
> > I'll let the perpetrator, Richard Stallman, explain. It was a
> > kerfluffle
> > regarding whether /bin/du should use units of 1,000 or 1024.
> >
> > http://karmak.org/archive/2003/01/12-14-99.epl.html
>
> It's not 1024 vs 1000; it's 1024 vs 512.
>
> If it's "du" or "df"; the display is supposed to be the number of
> 512-Byte blocks.....
[ ... ]
> If you set POSIXLY_CORRECT in the environment, they will show in 512
> byte blocks, or the disk sector size in bytes, instead, like they
> are "supposed to"

Yes, but Valdis' "politically correct" reference goes to the original
name of the environment variable, which I once knew, but had forgotten,
was POSIX_ME_HARDER.

Cheers,
-- jra
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