On 12/9/22 21:43, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
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).
Oh, I missed your suggestion about having two separate pages for string.h and strings.h. Please go ahead. I like it.
[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.hCheers, Alex
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