Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 May 2003 19:45:20 -0400 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Re: Patch for strncmp use in s390 in 2.5 |
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>> 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.
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