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SubjectRe: Patch for strncmp use in s390 in 2.5
>> I didn't see this posted before. Sorry if I missed it.
>> It's a harmless buglet which causes false positives with correctness
>> checking tools, and so annoys me.
>
> Are you sure it's harmless? Your patch changes the meaning from an
> exact match to a prefix match. I think it's intended to be an exact
> match, but I don't know why it doesn't just use strcmp().

The buglet is harmless. Now, the fix perhaps not.
I think it may be better to replace it with strcmp, too.

-- Pete
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