strtonum(3) in FreeBSD?
Ted Unangst
tedu at zeitbombe.org
Thu Apr 14 17:58:35 PDT 2005
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.
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