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    SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm] Introduce strtol_check_range()
    Hi Jan,


    On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

    >
    > On Aug 2 2007 05:16, Satyam Sharma wrote:
    > >
    > >BSD's strtonum(3) is a detestful, horrible shame.
    > >
    > >The strtol_check_range() I implemented here does _all_ that strtonum()
    > >does, plus is generic w.r.t. base, and minus the tasteless "errstr"
    > >argument.
    > >
    > >Tell me, how does that "errstr" ever make sense? We _anyway_ return
    > >errors (-EINVAL or -ERANGE) if any of those cases show up.
    >
    > errstr (well, at least for strtol) are useful to find the first character that
    > does not make up a number (and then do whatever the user wants to, including,
    > continuing to parse). For example "chown 0:1337", strtol on "0:1337" should
    > give errstr=pointer to the ":", then check for it being a ':', then you know
    > the next char is the GID. :)

    We were actually discussing the "errstr" that's the fourth argument of
    BSD's strtonum(3) which has quite radically different semantics [1]
    from the "endptr" argument of strtol(3). Anyway, I originally
    misunderstood the interface / the correct way to be using that function
    as I later mentioned in the other mail -- also see the answer to point
    #3 in [2]. Porting it over to here does sound like a good idea.

    I'm off on vacation with little or intermittent (possibly none) access
    to email for the next 10 days, so please feel free to beat me to it :-)


    Satyam

    [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=strtonum&apropos=0&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+7-current&format=html
    [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-April/048744.html
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