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 Re: strtonum(3) in FreeBSD? On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: > The manpage states: > "The strtonum function was designed to facilitate safe, robust > programming and overcome the shortcomings of the atoi(3) and > strtol(3) family of interfaces." > This implies (to me anyway) that it is a replacement for strtol(), > though it only implements a subset of strtol() functionality. yes, to make it simpler. > This means you can't use it in a simple parser to handle the user > entering "10k" to mean 10000 or "128m" to mean 128000000. dd(1) needs > this and I've used it on occasion. Again, it's being sold as a > replacement for strtol() but isn't. pop quiz! quick, how big is the file created by running "dd if=/dev/zero of=foo count=0x013b0x013b"? no credit if you have to run the command to find out.  that's the kind of weirdness strtonum is designed to prevent. of course, if you want the weirdness, strtonum is not for you. -- we don't run washington and no one really does      |
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