Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH version 2] guestfish: Use xstrtol to parse integers (RHBZ#557655).

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 01:05:32PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > + chmod 0777 /public # OK > > + chmod 777 /public # WRONG! This is mode 777 decimal = 01411 octal. > > This strikes me as surprising enough that it would deserve > to emit a warning when there is no leading 0. > Doing anything else seems like just asking for trouble. There's a limit to what we can do here. We would have to mark this parameter in a special way in the generator (not 'Int' but 'Int_that_usually_needs_octal_in_guestfish'). While I now think it was a bad idea to use plain types like 'Int' and 'String' in the generator (you live and learn, but this is why we replaced many uses of 'String' with 'Pathname', 'Device' etc),

changing this is quite involved for little gain. And what happens if people do want to use decimal modes, eg. if they are generating guestfish scripts. It is also now documented.