From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:53:43 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Allow xfs_db to write negative numbers
X-Git-Tag: v2.4.0~43
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=75efd6ca976e0d5acb996d9a45069f0158c26710;p=thirdparty%2Fxfsprogs-dev.git

Allow xfs_db to write negative numbers
---

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 5acbc3844..c736b5917 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 #
 PKG_MAJOR=2
 PKG_MINOR=3
-PKG_REVISION=0
+PKG_REVISION=1
 PKG_BUILD=0
diff --git a/db/write.c b/db/write.c
index 549fce80c..cfbdcb24a 100644
--- a/db/write.c
+++ b/db/write.c
@@ -501,12 +501,14 @@ convert_arg(
 		}
 
 		return buf;
-        } else if (arg[0] == '#' || strchr(arg,'-')) {
+        } else if (arg[0] == '#' || ((arg[0] != '-') && strchr(arg,'-'))) {
                 /*
                  * handle hex blocks ie
                  *    #00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff
                  * and uuids ie 
                  *    1122334455667788-99aa-bbcc-ddee-ff00112233445566778899
+		 *
+		 * (but if it starts with "-" assume it's just an integer)
                  */
                 int bytes=bit_length/8;
                 
diff --git a/doc/CHANGES b/doc/CHANGES
index b3c68a3cc..37e258155 100644
--- a/doc/CHANGES
+++ b/doc/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+xfsprogs-2.3.1 (03 September 2002)
+	- Allow xfs_db to accept negative numbers when writing values.
+
 xfsprogs-2.3.0 (03 September 2002)
 	- Several changes to geometry ioctl callers which will make
 	  the tools useable on older kernel versions too.