From 7e65c1fb80ee9c3401873b11017e2b9037f6c767 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 20:46:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Exclude octal from atolx(), just detect hex and decimal.

---
 lib/lib.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/lib.c b/lib/lib.c
index 1183435b..7ae3ff66 100644
--- a/lib/lib.c
+++ b/lib/lib.c
@@ -312,7 +312,8 @@ long long atolx(char *numstr)
   char *c = numstr, *suffixes="cwbkmgtpe", *end;
   long long val;
 
-  val = xstrtol(numstr, &c, 0);
+  // exclude octal to avoid confusion
+  val = xstrtol(numstr, &c, strstr(numstr, "0x") ? 0 : 10);
   if (c != numstr && *c && (end = strchr(suffixes, tolower(*c)))) {
     int shift = end-suffixes-2;
     ++c;
-- 
2.39.5