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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:55:02 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/22] treewide: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:51:14PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > The kernel used to contain two functions for length-delimited, > case-insensitive string comparison, strnicmp with correct semantics > and a slightly buggy strncasecmp. The latter is the POSIX name, so > strnicmp was renamed to strncasecmp, and strnicmp made into a wrapper > for the new strncasecmp to avoid breaking existing users. For the sake of those people who need to review the patches, can you say a bit more about the difference in semantics between strnicmp and strncasecmp, and why it's safe to do a global search and replace without worrying about the semantic differences? Thanks, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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