> do you realistically think we'll ever drop support for the -days argument
> though?  Dropping -days would break a million scripts.

No, we'll never drop support for -days.  But whether the code is atoi() or 
atof() is a big difference and might cause important silent failures for new 
scripts running on anything other than the most recent openssl.  On most 
systems atoi("0.5") returns 0 and no error indicator so "-days 0.5" would 
silently do the wrong thing on anything other than openssl 1.0.whatever  Which 
seems much worse.

        /r$

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