Subject: Re: Error: an inet prefix is expected rather than "0/0".

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:46:21 -0700

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:01:27 +0800
Herbert Xu <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Krzysztof Oledzki <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2ca4abdcb823e708b88156f947fa5b493055618a
> > 
> > ;)
> 
> Hmm, this breaks several scripts of mine that use 10/8.  Couldn't
> we just fall back to the old loop when inet_aton fails?
> 
> Thanks,

There is no easy solution, I'll will have to go back rewrite this
code, and will document the result. I expect the result will displease
someone, but given the original code that is just going to happen.

Busted cases:
                           correct           incorrect
Original code: 127.2   =>  127.0.0.2         127.2.0.0
inet_pton:     10.0    =>  10.0.0.0          fails invalid
inet_aton:     10      =>  10.0.0.0          0.0.0.10

The problem was Alexey (or Jamal) invented their own abbreviation format
and did not follow unix standard conventions.