linux programming-related mailing list?

[Vinicius]

Robert P. J. Day escreveu:
>   any recommendations for mailing lists devoted to linux programming?
> 
> rday
> 

You can try "comp.lang.c" at Google Groups.

> p.s.  my interest was particularly in the library call strtoul() to
> translate a string to an unsigned long, and extending that to handle
> suffixes for kibi-bytes and mebi-bytes, as in 4Ki or 8Mi, which i
> think would be enormously useful.  well, ok, it would be useful for
> *me*.
> 

You can try the function strpbrk putting "KMGkmg" (for example) as the 
string accept (see "man 3 strpbrk").

Vinicius.