> No but you're missing the point. I don't think the OP was and I > certainly wasn't suggesting it should have done what he "meant" to do. > However, I DO think it should have errored out because it was invalid > input. (That is to say unless you think negative numbers should be > considered valid input for this command? Please don't respond that > negative numbers are integers and therefore valid - that would be pure > sophistry.)
Yes, it's a bug. It's already in our ticketing system and we will fix it. The problem is in sscanf(), actually -- I hadn't realized this until now, but according to C99, the %u (unsigned integer) conversion format will accept a minus sign in the input without any complaint, and silently convert the result to a large positive number. This strikes me as rather bizarre; I would have expected the conversion to fail, but, shrug. We'll be adding a better formatting check. Meantime: exercise caution. -- Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
