Re: 2.1.120pre2: Bug in strnicmp() noted in 2.1.119pre1 is still there!

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:19:50 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Horst von Brand wrote:
>
> It makes no sense to compare tolower(*s1) to tolower(*s2) all over the
> place and then to just forget about that and compare the raw characters for
> the result...

The isofs strnicmp() implementation is so broken anyway that this doesn't
really matter. Look at signedness issues etc, and you'll see that this is
just a small thing..

I'll rewrite it completely,

Linus

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