Hi Branden, On 12/9/22 21:37, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
On another topic, I will stump again for the idea of having separate
strings.h(3) and string.h(3) pages instead of the single string(3) page
we see here. :)
On yet another topic, the history of strcasecmp() seems incomplete, and
fails to motivate why "strings.h" (note the additional "s") even exists.
NOTES
The strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() functions first appeared in
4.4BSD, where they were declared in <string.h>. Thus, for rea‐
sons of historical compatibility, the glibc <string.h> header
file also declares these functions, if the _DEFAULT_SOURCE (or,
in glibc 2.19 and earlier, _BSD_SOURCE) feature test macro is
defined.
They're older than the above indicates. strings.h as a _file_ is at
least as old as 4.2BSD (1983),[1] a decade before 4.4BSD.
str{n,}casecmp() came in with 4.3BSD-Tahoe (June 1988).[2] In
4.3BSD-Reno (June 1989), strings.h became a stump that loaded
<string.h>,[3] where it remained and after which the man-pages history
above picks up the story.
Want a patch?
Sure, patches are always welcome! =) Maybe that info would be better in string(3).
[1] https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.2BSD/usr/include/strings.h [2] https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.3BSD-Tahoe/usr/include/strings.h [3] https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.3BSD-Reno/include/strings.h
Cheers, Alex -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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