From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 9 8:12:58 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 162AE37B401; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 08:12:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f99FCSp61048; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 11:12:43 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200110090955.f999tT490240@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <200110090955.f999tT490240@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 11:12:25 -0400 To: Brian Somers , Mike Barcroft From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/string strnstr.c Makefile.inc strstr.3 src/include string.h Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:55 AM +0100 10/9/01, Brian Somers wrote: > > mike 2001/10/08 18:29:56 PDT > > Log: >> Add a new libc function, strnstr(3), which allows one to limit the >> number of characters that are searched. This is especially useful >> with file operations and non-NUL terminated strings. >> >> Silence from: -audit, -hackers > > MFC after: 5 days > >Is this based on any known standard ? If not, shouldn't there be >a mention that this is a FreeBSD specific API in the man page ? That sounds like a good idea to me. >Also, does this need to be MFC'd (I would say not), and does >__FreeBSD_version need to be bumped ? Why wouldn't we MFC this? As I understand it, this routine has been added to fix a problem. Why wouldn't we want to make that fix available for -stable? Why wait a year (for 5.0 to become the stable branch)? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message