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To: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/string strnstr.c Makefile.inc strstr.3 src/include string.h 
Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>,
	Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org,
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Oct 2001 17:13:45 BST."
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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:10:17 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@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.

Warner


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