Re: [RFC iproute2] tos: interpret ToS in natural numeral system

On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:42:05 -0800
Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref] wrote:

Silently forcing a base numeral system is very painful for users.
ip currently interprets tos 10 as 0x10. Imagine user's bash script
does:

  .. tos $((TOS * 2)) ..

or any numerical operation on the ToS.

This patch breaks existing scripts if they expect 10 to be 0x10.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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I get the feeling this was discussed in the past.

Also there's more:

misc/lnstat_util.c:			unsigned long f = strtoul(ptr, &ptr, 16);

This is reading /proc/net/stat/XXX files and those files
are generated in kernel without any prefix. So this has to stay.