Re: iSCSI: Text/Operational keys: booleans and ranges

["Daniel F. Smith" <dfsmith@almaden.ibm.com>]

Luben Tuikov wrote:
> 
> 1. Is it possible to make all Boolean Text/Operational keys's
> value range be ``0'' and ``1'', rather than the current
> ``Yes'', ``No''.

An old trick is to use bit 0 of the first (UTF-8) character.
This gets:
	1 for "1", "Yes", "yes", "oui", "si" (but not "ja", "da" or "hai")
	0 for "0", "No", "non" (but not "ei")
Of course, it also allows great opportunity for obfuscation ("maybe" is
yes), and must therefore be a good thing.  B-)

Daniel Smith
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