Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:26:53 +1030 (CST) | From | Michael Talbot-Wilson <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] /proc/fs/nfsd/exports |
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> > Those values are NOT integers originally, they are octet arrays. > > What? > > The values are IPv4 addresses. There is _one_ standard way of printing > them, and that standard way is as four decimal numbers. EVERYBODY prints > them that way. It's the only sane way to show them. > > There is no question in my mind - printing out IPv4 addresses as hex > "integers" is wrong. It has always been wrong, and it's wrong now. It > happens to be very simple, which is the excuse for doing it, but it's > still wrong.
Yet netmasks are bit-oriented, thus more intelligible as hex integers.
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