Re: New libutil function: parse_capacity(3).

From: Dan Nelson (dnelson_at_allantgroup.com)
Date: 09/17/04

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    Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:11:17 -0500
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>

    In the last episode (Sep 17), Giorgos Keramidas said:
    > On 2004-09-16 20:42, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote:
    > > http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/parse_capacity.patch
    > > Any comments before committing?
    >
    > Is it intentional that it works even for "negative" capacities?
    >
    > : $ ./foo
    > : -10 fffffffffffffff6 | -10 fffffffffffffff6
    > : -10240 ffffffffffffd800 | -10k ffffffffffffd800

    I'd call that a feature. Imagine a "resizefs" command, where you would
    enter a positive number to grow, and a negative one to shrink. 

    -- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com
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