Re: iSCSI: RE: iSCSI 4.1 & 4.2

[Martins Krikis <mkrikis@yahoo.com>]

--- Julian Satran <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com> wrote:
> there is no octal encoding in iSCSI :-) Julo

I know. But somebody who is new to iSCSI may not
know. iSCSI does not need to allow leading 0-s
for decimal numbers (except 0), so in order to be
more in line with the rest of the world (which
would view such 0-s as an indication of an octal
number), I think we should prohibit them. Simply
to avoid potential confusion. Plus, it may enable
some implementers to save a few cycles before/when
passing a string to strtoul().

I simply don't think that it is nice that iSCSI
regards 017 as decimal 17 while the rest of the
world would treat it as decimal 15. Stating that
non-zero decimals must not start with 0 would
leave less room for confusion.

  Martins Krikis, Intel Corp.



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