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authorschwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2011-07-25 00:38:52 +0000
committerschwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2011-07-25 00:38:52 +0000
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update HISTORY and SEE ALSO for all of string(3), together with various
smaller improvements; jmc@ and nicm@ both ask me to get this in because further tweaking will be easier in-tree
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diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strcmp.3 b/lib/libc/string/strcmp.3
index 8b63772bdc7..aea2023b7bf 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/strcmp.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/strcmp.3
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.\" $OpenBSD: strcmp.3,v 1.11 2011/07/25 00:38:53 schwarze Exp $
+.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -29,9 +31,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: strcmp.3,v 1.10 2009/12/05 07:45:48 jmc Exp $
-.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 5 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 25 2011 $
.Dt STRCMP 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ functions lexicographically compare the NUL-terminated strings
.Fa s1
and
.Fa s2 .
+The
+.Fn strncmp
+function compares at most
+.Fa len
+characters.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn strcmp
@@ -67,17 +72,13 @@ The comparison is done using unsigned characters, so that
.Ql \e200
is greater than
.Ql \e0 .
-.Pp
-.Fn strncmp
-compares at most
-.Fa len
-characters.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr bcmp 3 ,
.Xr memcmp 3 ,
.Xr strcasecmp 3 ,
.Xr strcoll 3 ,
-.Xr strxfrm 3
+.Xr strxfrm 3 ,
+.Xr wcscmp
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Fn strcmp
@@ -85,3 +86,10 @@ and
.Fn strncmp
functions conform to
.St -ansiC .
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn strcmp
+and
+.Fn strncmp
+functions first appeared in
+.At v7 .