[Swan-dev] WIP: supporting xfrm SA expire

[Antony Antony]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 07:23:00PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> 
>         One thing decide as group is how to represent big number (2^64) bytes
>         and
>         packets, especially the default 2^64  will appear in "ipsec status: 
>         output.
>          18446744073709551615 look ugly:)
> 
> 
>     There's readable_humber() but that would need work.
>     Conversely is there something to convert things like 100gb back to bytes.

I added parser support, in my branch, for 100G to a number.

I think the parser only u32. So
I don't think parser support 18446744073709551615. 

> and of course long after the code was written, the suffixes were standardised
> by IEC et.al. ('99) and we're now meant to use GiB et.al. https://
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix :-)

So far I have KMGTE. I will change change print KiB, GiB,... that is easy.  
And may be add support for parsing 100GiB.