> 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> > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 -- Rod Grimes [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
