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Vladimir Prus wrote:
> You've changed the code to output the number of bytes and changes the text
> to read "bytes" the the name of output field is still 'transferred-bits'.
> I'm not sure this matters (maybe in MI mode), but in any way, you should
> adjust that.

I'm not sure what the policy is on these things, but I think that 
arbitrarily changing field names (and values) unnecessarily breaks 
compatibility with tools that use MI mode.