On Wed, Sep 17 2014, Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:51:31PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: >> The kernel used to contain two functions for length-delimited, >> case-insensitive string comparison, strnicmp with correct semantics >> and a slightly buggy strncasecmp. The latter is the POSIX name, so >> strnicmp was renamed to strncasecmp, and strnicmp made into a wrapper >> for the new strncasecmp to avoid breaking existing users. > > When was this done? As of this morning I still see them as independent functions > in lib/string.c. It will be in 3.18. I thought it had made it to linux-next, but should have double-checked (and included the 3.18 info in the email); sorry. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1775150/focus=1775152 Rasmus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
