> What about adding a new flag to enable strtoul behavior? I have had a look at the available flag options for a potential strtoul flag, and a flag that makes sense to me is [-s] / [--strtoul]. [-s] is not currently being used in i2c, if we wanted to use it. On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 5:13 AM Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-rwg_at_gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > I have renovated the i2c(8) program and while I belive all argument > > processing is 100% compatible, various undocumented aspects of the > > program may have changed, amongst these precisely what goes to > > stdout and stderr. > > > > Apologies if this breaks any of your scripts. > > > > <bikeshed> > <blue> > > > There is one aspect of this program which I have not changed, but > > which bugs me utterly: All arguments are in hex, except [-c count] > > which is decimal. > > > > My personal preference would be if all the arguments called strtoul(3) > > with zero third argument, so that users can use decimal, octal or > > hex as they prefer, but I fear that would break pretty much every > > single script. > > > > Alternatively [-c count] could be changed to be hex like the rest. > > What about adding a new flag to enable strtoul behavior? > Or invoked by another name i2cX and install a hard link? > > > </bikeshed> > </blue> > > > phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > -- > Rod Grimes > rgrimes_at_freebsd.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Thu May 13 2021 - 23:43:57 UTC
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