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Re: [bug] TIMEFMT=%M reports value in mebibyte, not kibibytes

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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [bug] TIMEFMT=%M reports value in mebibyte, not kibibytes
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:33:06 +0100
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2021-06-18 21:31:56 +0100, Stephane Chazelas:
[...]
> Still the claim that %M gives kilobytes is wrong on most
> systems.
[...]

FWIW, ru_maxrss was already in kibibytes in the original
getrusage() implementation in BSD4.2 in 1985.

It may be that it's in bytes (or at least documented to be in
bytes) on macos only: https://manpagez.com/man/2/getrusage/

-- 
Stephane

References:
- [bug] TIMEFMT=%M reports value in mebibyte, not kibibytes
  - From: Stephane Chazelas
- Re: [bug] TIMEFMT=%M reports value in mebibyte, not kibibytes
  - From: Stephane Chazelas

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