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Date:      Tue, 14 Jul 2015 17:02:31 -0700
From:      Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>, d@delphij.net,  Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r285552 - head/usr.bin/xargs
Message-ID:  <55A5A317.9000008@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <55A591C8.1030105@FreeBSD.org>
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On 07/14/15 15:48, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/14/15 15:44, Xin Li wrote:
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>> On 07/14/15 13:29, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> On Jul 14, 2015, at 12:16, Baptiste Daroussin
>>> <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Author: bapt Date: Tue Jul 14 19:16:14 2015 New Revision:
>>>> 285552 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/285552
>>>> 
>>>> Log: Convert atoi(3) to stronum(3) which allows to arguments
>>>> and report proper errors to the users
>>> Is strtonum preferred over strtoll, etc?
>> strtonum(3) is a wrapper of strtoll() and provides more
>> functionality like range checking, so I think the answer would be
>> yes.
> 
> There is only the issue that strtonum(3) is non-standard so I have
> resisted the temptation to blindly replace atoi(3) in existing
> code.

Well, that's true, but what Baptiste done was to address a specific
issue with the existing code (to provide better error message) so I
don't think that counts as a simple wholesale replacement from one API
to another API.

Cheers,
- -- 
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>    https://www.delphij.net/
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