Re: strcmp()

[Jon 'maddog' Hall, Executive Director, Linux International]

>I can only guess at the reason(s) for the omission...

I seem to remember (eons ago) that BSD and Sys 3 had different return values
for non-equal strings.

Sys 3.0 had one set of return values, with "zero" as "equal"

BSD had another set of return values, with "zero" as "equal"

This may be the answer why the book was not as definite as the man pages
for your particular system.

md
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