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To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/string strnstr.c Makefile.inc strstr.3 src/include string.h 
Cc: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org,
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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 17:27:42 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <15299.21138.651648.144237@nomad.yogotech.com> Nate Williams writes:
: > mike        2001/10/08 18:29:56 PDT
: > 
: >   Modified files:
: >     lib/libc/string      Makefile.inc strstr.3 
: >     include              string.h 
: >   Added files:
: >     lib/libc/string      strnstr.c 
: >   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.
: 
: Aren't names that start with str reserved by ANSI?  Therefore, adding a
: non-standard routing with this name is a violation of the C language.
: 
: (Bruce would know more...)

Actaully, str* is reserved for the implementation space.  A conforming
program cannot define str* routines, so this will not break any
conforming program.

Warner

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