[Dovecot] my_strncasecmp ignores max_chars

[Ben Winslow]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:44:53 +0200
Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On 13.11.2006, at 16.39, Ben Winslow wrote:
>
> > my_strncasecmp ignores the length parameter, which breaks all sorts of
> > things on platforms where the function actually gets used.
>
> Thanks. Do you actually know such a platform? I had been thinking
> earlier that maybe I should just drop them out completely.

Well, my man page suggests that the first 'formal' standard it appears
in is POSIX.1-2001, so I'm sure such systems exist...  I don't have
access to any, though.  ;)  A little digging suggests that some old
versions of SunOS, Solaris < 2.6, and VMS < 7.0 don't have it.

In my particular case, a bounds checker/malloc debugger I was using
(bounds checking gcc[1], which is excellent, by the way) caused
the configure test to fail, since strn?casecmp had an internal
prototype.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/boundschecking/

--
Ben Winslow <rain at bluecherry.net>
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