On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 11:08, Leo Bicknell wrote: > 0xffffff00 was hex, > 0123456701234567 was octal, > 010.010.010.010 was 4 decimal parts > > I was very surprised from the poster that 192.168.0.010 might actually > be 192.168.0.8.
I would imagine this behaviour is like it is because that is how atoi and friends work.. All of this stuff was written by C programmers and it shows 8-) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
