> I can't speak to the correctness of that code but your understanding of
> strncmp() is incorrect. From "GNU C Library Application Fundamentals":
>
> This function is the [sic] similar to strcmp, except that no more
> than size wide characters are compared. In other words, if the two
> strings are the same in their first size wide characters, the return
> value is zero.
>
> And this has been may experience for the past 20 years and is confirmed by
> this trivial program which prints zero in both cases:
>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main() {
> printf("%d\n", strncmp("abc","abcd",3));
> printf("%d\n", strncmp("abcd","abc",3));
> }
Except that in my example, the count was larger than both strings...
Anyway, it happens to not be a problem as the string I was comparing was
not in fact different.
Ben.
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