Messages in this thread | | | From | Gerd Knorr <> | Date | Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:49:50 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC] /proc/fs/nfsd/exports |
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In lists.linux.kernel you write:
>> > 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.
I like the 192.168.42.105/24 thing for netmasks.
Gerd
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