Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] SI vs. IEC prefixes

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 December 2013 10:01, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

Somewhat UK centric, and possibly NSFW in some jurisdictions, but the official internet units of measure are here:  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/