On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:37:13PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2005-09-08 at 17:45 +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > > >The only general, usable strnicmp safe for general kernel use would be > > a > > >full all singing all dancing UTF-8 symbol aware arbitary locale > > >implementation. And that we *definitely* do not want in kernel. > > > > Then you'd want to immediately get rid of the mentioned, pre-exisiting > > strnicmp(). > > Yes
There is a couple of legitimate uses of that one - mostly in workarounds for bugs in unrelated programs... Most of the strnicmp() users should go, though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
