Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 00:42:44 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/renice renice.c Message-ID: <XFMail.20020517004244.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020517034023.A8414@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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On 16-May-2002 Tim J. Robbins wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:27:46PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > >> Why? Are there really people out there with usernames of '007' or '0x1c'? > > The standard requires user & process ID's to be specified as decimal > integers, > and that's the way it has traditionally worked (it used atoi() before). > Users should be able to specify leading zeros without causing the number to > be interpreted as octal. If the standard says it then I suppose that's good enough. I doubt leading zero's is a severe problem though. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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