Re: Possible /etc/hosts parsing bug?

Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com)
Sun, 17 Nov 96 22:20:03 PST


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.

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