[patch] have rtprio check that arguments are numeric;
change atoi to strtol
Garrett Cooper
yanegomi at gmail.com
Tue Jan 4 18:19:15 UTC 2011
On Jan 4, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 08:58:48 -0800, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> + errno = 0;
>>>>> + res = strtol(str, &endp, 10);
>>>>> + if (errno != 0 || endp == str || *endp != '\0')
>>>>> + err(1, "%s shall be a number", errname);
>>>>
>>>> Small nit, maybe use 'must' instead of 'shall'.
>>>
>>> it seems at some point there has been a massive usage of the term
>>> 'shall' in manual pages, which people tried to get rid of. hence the
>>> 'usr/share/examples/mdoc/deshallify.sh' script.
>>
>> I know shall is used widely by opengroup when describing definitions
>> and interfaces in the POSIX standards, but the connotation in English
>> is very squishy, so I agree with John that must would be better.
>>
>> BTW, only if errno was non-zero would using err(3) be
>> logical. Otherwise it will just produce noise :).
>
> That's a good point. I think we should change err() to errx() there.
kib was quick and already did it in r216967.
Cheers!
-Garrett
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