Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 10:08 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> 
>>>  
>>> +/*
>>> + * RFC1833/RFC3530 rpcbind (v3+) well-known netid's.
>>> + */
>>> +#define	RPCB_NETID_UDP	"\165\144\160"		/* "udp" */
>>> +#define	RPCB_NETID_TCP	"\164\143\160"		/* "tcp" */
>>> +#define	RPCB_NETID_UDP6	"\165\144\160\066"	/* "udp6" */
>>> +#define	RPCB_NETID_TCP6	"\164\143\160\066"	/* "tcp6" */
> 
> BTW: Any reason why we are using escaped octal instead of plain ascii
> here?

In other words, I'm not smart enough to do this any other way.  :-/

If there's a nice C construct that gives us guaranteed US-ASCII strings 
no matter what the locale then I'd love to learn it.