Can we please cut patrick some slack? I Googled, I followed the offensive link that was suggested, and I searched the archives of several OpenBSD mailing lists, and there is indeed nothing that obviously points out what's wrong with strcmp. I can very well imagine patrick did the same thing and decided just to ask.
Also, please keep in mind that people who are trying to contribute to the project in one way or another may not be as willing to do so if you fling this kind of offense at them. Everybody makes mistakes; it's not like patrick was purposefully trying to waste anyone's time. In the meantime, we're a few posts down the road from the original question, and I haven't seen any answer; neither on the list, nor on the Net. I suppose it has something to do with strcmp continuing to compare until it finds a char with value 0, but I can think of many situations where this wouldn't occur (it certainly shouldn't be an issue if all strings are always 0-terminated). So, I second patrick's question, and I would ask that someone either answer the question or provide a link to an answer. If it is indeed such a frequently asked question, it shouldn't be too hard to find a FAQ entry or mailing list post that answers it, right? Cheers, Bob
