From owner-cvs-all Thu May 16 21:43: 1 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96A237B405 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 21:42:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11882 invoked from network); 17 May 2002 04:42:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 17 May 2002 04:42:55 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4H4gsF73773; Fri, 17 May 2002 00:42:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020517034023.A8414@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 00:42:44 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Tim J. Robbins" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/renice renice.c Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 <>< 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