On 01/21/2011 06:03 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >> You see I was trying to make very special arguments to sleep so that I >> can make sure to kill the one I want >> pkill -u jidanni -fx sleep\ 000022 >> It is not clear if that will still work. > > With today's change using "sleep 000022" will > still act just like "sleep 22". > > I could not change that (and would not want to!) > without breaking with years of tradition. > >> Maybe the man/info page should >> say a regexp that matches all valid args. > > It already describes the format pretty well, > mentioning "floating point" and the four suffixes.
Floating point literals include hex-floats, such as 0x1p1. Does today's added pre-filtering to reject 0x1 accidentally also reject hex-float literals? (It's a bit of a shame that when hex-floats were added that strtod() was altered to accept hex-float literals but as a side effect it also started accepting hexadecimal values without the p[+-]?[0-9]+ exponent suffix). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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