Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Jan 2006 14:42:50 -0500 | From | Bob Copeland <> | Subject | Re: Platform device matching, & weird strncmp usage |
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On 1/7/06, Kurtis D. Rader <kdrader@us.ibm.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-06 16:59:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > As far as I know, strncmp() is _NOT_ supposed to return 0 if one string > > is shorter than the other and they match until that point
> I can't speak to the correctness of that code but your understanding of > strncmp() is incorrect. From "GNU C Library Application Fundamentals":
I believe the original poster was asserting that 'strncmp("abc","abcd",100) should never return zero,' and not 'strncmp("abc","abcd",3) should never return zero.' Though I also found the statement confusing at first.
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