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author | Rene Mayrhofer <rene@mayrhofer.eu.org> | 2007-04-12 20:30:08 +0000 |
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committer | Rene Mayrhofer <rene@mayrhofer.eu.org> | 2007-04-12 20:30:08 +0000 |
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diff --git a/src/libfreeswan/atoul.3 b/src/libfreeswan/atoul.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a606fa4a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/libfreeswan/atoul.3 @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +.TH IPSEC_ATOUL 3 "11 June 2001" +.\" RCSID $Id: atoul.3,v 1.1 2004/03/15 20:35:26 as Exp $ +.SH NAME +ipsec atoul, ultoa \- convert unsigned-long numbers to and from ASCII +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B "#include <freeswan.h> +.sp +.B "const char *atoul(const char *src, size_t srclen," +.ti +1c +.B "int base, unsigned long *n);" +.br +.B "size_t ultoa(unsigned long n, int base, char *dst," +.ti +1c +.B "size_t dstlen);" +.SH DESCRIPTION +These functions are obsolete; see +.IR ipsec_ttoul (3) +for their replacements. +.PP +.I Atoul +converts an ASCII number into a binary +.B "unsigned long" +value. +.I Ultoa +does the reverse conversion, back to an ASCII version. +.PP +Numbers are specified in ASCII as +decimal (e.g. +.BR 123 ), +octal with a leading zero (e.g. +.BR 012 , +which has value 10), +or hexadecimal with a leading +.B 0x +(e.g. +.BR 0x1f , +which has value 31) +in either upper or lower case. +.PP +The +.I srclen +parameter of +.I atoul +specifies the length of the ASCII string pointed to by +.IR src ; +it is an error for there to be anything else +(e.g., a terminating NUL) within that length. +As a convenience for cases where an entire NUL-terminated string is +to be converted, +a +.I srclen +value of +.B 0 +is taken to mean +.BR strlen(src) . +.PP +The +.I base +parameter of +.I atoul +can be +.BR 8 , +.BR 10 , +or +.BR 16 , +in which case the number supplied is assumed to be of that form +(and in the case of +.BR 16 , +to lack any +.B 0x +prefix). +It can also be +.BR 0 , +in which case the number is examined for a leading zero +or a leading +.B 0x +to determine its base, +or +.B 13 +(halfway between 10 and 16), +which has the same effect as +.B 0 +except that a non-hexadecimal +number is considered decimal regardless of any leading zero. +.PP +The +.I dstlen +parameter of +.I ultoa +specifies the size of the +.I dst +parameter; +under no circumstances are more than +.I dstlen +bytes written to +.IR dst . +A result which will not fit is truncated. +.I Dstlen +can be zero, in which case +.I dst +need not be valid and no result is written, +but the return value is unaffected; +in all other cases, the (possibly truncated) result is NUL-terminated. +.PP +The +.I base +parameter of +.I ultoa +must be +.BR 8 , +.BR 10 , +or +.BR 16 . +.PP +.I Atoul +returns NULL for success and +a pointer to a string-literal error message for failure; +see DIAGNOSTICS. +.I Ultoa +returns the size of buffer which would +be needed to +accommodate the full conversion result, including terminating NUL; +it is the caller's responsibility to check this against the size of +the provided buffer to determine whether truncation has occurred. +.SH SEE ALSO +atol(3), strtoul(3) +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +Fatal errors in +.I atoul +are: +empty input; +unknown +.IR base ; +non-digit character found; +number too large for an +.BR "unsigned long" . +.SH HISTORY +Written for the FreeS/WAN project by Henry Spencer. +.SH BUGS +There is no provision for reporting an invalid +.I base +parameter given to +.IR ultoa . +.PP +The restriction of error reports to literal strings +(so that callers don't need to worry about freeing them or copying them) +does limit the precision of error reporting. +.PP +The error-reporting convention lends itself to slightly obscure code, +because many readers will not think of NULL as signifying success. +A good way to make it clearer is to write something like: +.PP +.RS +.nf +.B "const char *error;" +.sp +.B "error = atoul( /* ... */ );" +.B "if (error != NULL) {" +.B " /* something went wrong */" +.fi +.RE |