On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Vegard Nossum wrote: > On 10/2/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > maybe i'm just missing something obvious, but is there any > > difference between the above routines defined in lib/string.c? > > they both appear to be length-limited, case-insensitive string > > comparisons. > > I think they're the same, too, but both there for historical > reasons. It seems strnicmp() was there from the beginning of time, > and strncasecmp() came later. It is worth noting that strnicmp() is > not described in POSIX or ANSI, however. i noticed all of that. i was going to suggest that, for the sake of reducing redundancy, one or the other could be tossed but, after looking again, it's probably not worth it. almost everyone in kernel space seems to use strnicmp() as opposed to strncasecmp(): $ grep -rw strnicmp * | wc -l 193 $ grep -rw strncasecmp * | wc -l 8 and even some of those calls to strncasecmp() are for user space or in Documentation files. it's a bit messy but probably not worth trying to do anything about at this point. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
