Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

From: Charlie Root <root@energistic.com>
Date: Fri Apr 16 2004 - 14:47:04 EDT

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:14:56AM -0700, Schmidt, Michael R. wrote:
> I will point out that octal only has digits from 0 to 7, so 092
> cannot be interpreted as octal

Sure. And there's the potential bug. FreeBSD interprest 092 as 92 since
its clearly not octal. MS interprets it as 74. Go figure.

-Steve

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