From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 3 18:58:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A182237B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (ussenterprise.ufp.org [208.185.30.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 136A843E3B for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:58:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bicknell@ussenterprise.ufp.org) Received: (from bicknell@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g941wbq71893 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 21:58:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bicknell) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 21:58:37 -0400 From: Leo Bicknell To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inet_aton() Bug or feature? Message-ID: <20021004015837.GA71793@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1136947159.20021003160026@yahoo.com> <20021003195515.GA92263@blossom.cjclark.org> <20021004013814.GA70364@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <1033696158.61118.13.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1033696158.61118.13.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Organization: United Federation of Planets Reply-By: Thu Oct 10 21:56:30 EDT 2002 X-Message-Flag: Put no trust in cryptic comments. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a message written on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:19:16AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I would imagine this behaviour is like it is because that is how atoi > and friends work.. Absolutely. I think this is the unintended consequence sort of bug, not the programmer goofed sort of bug. :) I'd definately call the poster's original problem a bug though, IMHO. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message