Package: oping Followup-For: Bug #861856 > When running noping -O foo.csv 127.0.0.1, I get file output like: > > 1493922621,709,"127.0.0.1",11,28 > > This is somewhat unfortunate, since it's not really comma separated > values any more. > >(My locale has «,» as its decimal separator.)
I am not sure what exactly you consider to be a bug, as you didn't show an example of what you expected instead. If it is about the IP, I must remind you that this is NOT a decimal number, and thus dots are always used (I am not aware of any language that enforce a different typographical convention that would be here technicaly wrong). AFAIK, it is fully compliant with RFC-4180 and others. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 My 2nd guess is that you were not aware that you can enclose with a '"' character the start and the end of any field, even when not strictly required. But doing so here is a good idea, as I can imagine securities issues in some extreme case, perhaps with some unicode domain names or bogus ones (passed fake domains names that include comas or \n) so as to exploit scripts that didn't properly sanitized their parameters. I think I will mark this as WONTFIX, as "fixing" it is likely to break many scripts that expect those quotes to always be included, and the current behaviour make sure that scripts are aware that they could have to handle special strings and characters (it is also much easier that way). And so I suggest that you or the maintainer simply close this bug. Have a nice day, Simon Valiquette -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable-debug APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE=fr_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages oping depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 ii liboping0 1.9.0-1+b1 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 oping recommends no packages. oping suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed
