Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Nov 1996 13:50:46 +0000 (GMT) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Possible /etc/hosts parsing bug? |
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > Heh. Leading 0 means 'decode as octal'. Octal 016 equal decimal 14. Heh. > Try adding a leading 0x for even more fun. > > Gee, I dunno about whether /etc/hosts numbers are implicit > decimal or not- I suspect so, but still, I would call it > a bug to user strtol with an implicit base. > [rest sniped]
I don't think it's a bug, as ping 0xac100201 works fine (172.16.2.1), well I havn't tested that address, but I have pinged 0x9e98a6f6 (me ;).
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