Hi, the strtok man-page does not specify what happens if `str` does not contain any `delim`iters. If you don't already know strtok one might assume then either: - the delimiter-less string is considered the next token and thus returned upon the first call to strtok - on the first call NULL is returned because there are not any tokens Related issue: is the non-empty `str`-suffix after the last `delim` returned as a token or not? I know how strtok works - but perhaps it makes sense to explicitly address these issues in the Linux man page. Best regards Georg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html