Re: [PATCH 4/4] fs/qnx4: decrement sizeof size in strncmp

[Julia Lawall]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Anders Larsen wrote:

> On 2009-11-12 08:49:44, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > As observed by Joe Perches, sizeof of a constant string includes the
> > trailing 0.  If what is wanted is to check the initial characters of
> > another string, this trailing 0 should not be taken into account.  If an
> > exact match is wanted, strcmp should be used instead.
> 
> Good catch.
> However, in this case an exact match (with the string ".bitmap") is what
> is needed, so
> 
> NAK
> 
> Will you cook up a new patch changing strncmp to strcmp?

Sure.

julia
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