output of the information summary returned by dd(1). This can be used
to specify messages in a more usable (or parseable) format like
human-readable values.
My intent is to re-use this for building image files and quick I/O
benchmarking.
Reviewed by tsutsui@ on tech-userlevel. See also
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2010/12/03/msg004179.html
Some examples:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1 msgfmt=human
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1,0 MB) transferred in 0.001 secs (1048576000 bytes/sec - 1,0 GB/sec)
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=1 msgfmt='
> <speed>%E</speed>
> <time>%s</time>
> <bytes>%b</bytes>
> '
<speed>500 KB/sec</speed>
<time>0.001</time>
<bytes>512</bytes>
- Add strsuftoull(), which parses a number into a u_longlong_t, with
multiplication support, and support for 'g' (GB) and 't' (TB) suffices.
If an error occurs, print to stderr and exit.
Based on get_blk() from args.c and strsufto*() (in other programs)
- Add strsuftoullx(), which acts as per strsuftoull() but returns the
error in the supplied buffer instead (if the returned buffer != "", an
error occurred)
- Replace get_bsz() use with strsuftoull()
- Remove (now) unnecessary argument validation
- Remove unused {f,p,s,t}_stats fields in struct IO
wiz