Re: Platform device matching, & weird strncmp usage

[Bob Copeland]

On 1/7/06, Kurtis D. Rader <kdrader@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 16:59:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > As far as I know, strncmp() is _NOT_ supposed to return 0 if one string
> > is shorter than the other and they match until that point

> I can't speak to the correctness of that code but your understanding of
> strncmp() is incorrect. From "GNU C Library Application Fundamentals":

I believe the original poster was asserting that
'strncmp("abc","abcd",100) should never return zero,' and not
'strncmp("abc","abcd",3) should never return zero.'  Though I also
found the statement confusing at first.

-Bob
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