Re: strtonum(3) from OpenBSD?

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 05:35:04PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:29:56AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > Returning an error *string* is so profoundly bogus I have trouble
> > imagining that anyone with more than a few weeks' experience programming
> > in C doesn't see why.
> 
> Indeed, but if we change it to a better API it will imediately loose
> it's portability value.

Right.

What if we write strtonum(3) in terms of an API that we do like, and
indicate in the manual page that strtonum(3) should not be used for new
code?

Dave

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