[Toybox] Integer value parsing issue

[David Seikel]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 23:16:13 +0900 Kyungwan Han <asura321 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm making arping, but I find some issue about parsing integer value
> when I test toybox arping.
> 
> Toybox infra code handles the number values in three way:
> 
> 1. if you input 10, it is treated as decimal number. it is 10
> 2. if you input 010, it is treated as octal number. it is 8
> 3. if you input 0x10, it is treated as Hex number. it is 16
> 
> 
> So when I execute *$ toybox arping -c 010 100.0.0.1, *arping* *is
> executed 8 times.
> In my ubuntu, however, when I execute *$ arping -c 010 100.0.0.1*,
> arping is executed 10 times.
> *
> *
> *
> *
> I think toybox's approach is right, because it can supports octal, hex
> number automatically.
> It's very useful.
> But above case, some people can be confused.
> Is it fine?
> How about your opinion?
> 
> Thanks.
> Kyungwan Han.

Is octal actually useful for anything any more?  In the above case, all
it does is make you type two extra digits, specifying a count in octal
seems like a silly idea to me.

You asked for opinions, there's mine.  B-)

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coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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