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| author | mike <mike@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-10-11 17:02:44 +0000 |
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| committer | mike <mike@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-10-11 17:02:44 +0000 |
| commit | 50430063cd01bcdd44d1182025865abf15bf2de7 (patch) | |
| tree | c66f8adbe5b5d4c486096465954b32c759f34a5b /lib/libc/string/strcmp.3 | |
| parent | 988a5d401980b43471fd55a6c07dd624ad0334b3 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-50430063cd01bcdd44d1182025865abf15bf2de7.zip FreeBSD-src-50430063cd01bcdd44d1182025865abf15bf2de7.tar.gz | |
Note that strncmp() will not compare characters after a NUL character.
Add a missing word. Bump document date.
Inspired by: IEEE Std 1003.1-200x (Draft 7)
MFC after: 3 days
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string/strcmp.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/string/strcmp.3 | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strcmp.3 b/lib/libc/string/strcmp.3 index 33db3c6..08adad0 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/strcmp.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/strcmp.3 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ .\" @(#)strcmp.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 4, 1993 +.Dd October 11, 2001 .Dt STRCMP 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -64,9 +64,16 @@ and .Pp The .Fn strncmp +function compares not more than .Fa len characters. +Because +.Fn strncmp +is designed for comparing strings rather than binary data, +characters that appear after a +.Ql \e0 +character are not compared. .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn strcmp |
