Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 18:50:10 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/string strnstr.c Makefile.inc strstr.3 src/include string.h Message-ID: <200110091750.f99HoA668592@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> of "Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:10:17 MDT." <200110091710.f99HAH767190@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <200110091613.f99GDk600838@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: > : > -On [20011009 12:00], Brian Somers (brian@freebsd-services.com) wrote: > : > >Is this based on any known standard? > : > > : > No. > : > > : > >If not, shouldn't there be a mention that this is a FreeBSD specific > : > >API in the man page ? > : > > : > We don't have a consistent precedent for doing so. > : > : reallocf() seems like a reasonable sample. > > reallocf() was added so we didn't have to add the following code: > void *p, *newp; > > newp = realloc(p, size); > if (newp == NULL) > free(p); > p = newp; > > and have people get it wrong 5 different ways. Yes. The man page also mentions that it's not a standard API. I figured it'd be nice to do the same with strnstr(). > Warner -- Brian <brian@freebsd-services.com> <brian@Awfulhak.org> http://www.freebsd-services.com/ <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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