http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/swab.html
the prototype for swab() should be in <unistd.h> and not in <string.h>.
Move it, and update to match SUS. Leave the prototype in string.h for
now, for backwards compat.
PR: 74751
Submitted by: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>
Discussed with: das
almost identical.
* Merge strchr(3) and strrchr(3) to strchr(3) since the two functions
are almost identical.
* Make the wording of index(3) and strchr(3) more similar.
* mdoc(7) cleanup.
Submitted by: SUZUKI Koichi <metal@gc5.so-net.ne.jp>, keramida, myself
PR: docs/32054
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: ceri (mentor)
technique) so that we don't wind up calling into an application's
version if the application defines them.
Inspired by: qpopper's interfering and buggy version of strlcpy
As a side effect, it makes the code easier to read and requires less
pointer arithmetic.
Test by: strerror regression test
Submitted by: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
o Fix an English error (comma splice) and poorly worded sentence.
o Fix KNF ordering of variables (pointers come before arithmetic types).
o Restore hand-optimization of sizeof()-1, instead of strlen().
o Remove unneeded local variables in strerror_r().
Test by: strerror regression test
Requested by: bde
Reviewed by: bde
strerror_r(). Doing this allows us to ensure that strerror_r() always
fills the supplied buffer regardless of EINVAL or ERANGE errors.
strerror()'s semantics have changed slightly such that an argument of
0 is now considered invalid and errno is set to EINVAL.
Remove internal regression test for strerror() and strerror_r(). This
will be reincarnated in src/tools/regression/lib/libc/string.
In strerror(3), add a comment about strerror()'s bogus return type.
PR: 44356
more efficient. The problem with the previous implementation was that it
calculated the length of the first argument ("big") with wcslen() when
it was not necessary.
two major bugs:
- off-by-one overflow when the length of the source string exceeds or
equals the destination buffer size.
- old version was not padding the destination buffer with null wide chars
bcopy(3) functions are prototyped in <strings.h> and not in
<string.h> anymore.
- Add a sentence about that to the respective HISTORY sections.
In the C source files:
- Include <string.h> or <strings.h> depending on what function
is to be compiled.
- Use ANSI-C function definitions.
.In string.h
with
.In strings.h
and adding a sentence to the HISTORY section.
- Use an ANSI-C function definition.
- Include <strings.h> instead of <string.h>.
- Apply style(9): Put a space after return keywords.
in the ANSI-C format.
- Change the code a bit to hopefully save some cycles.
I.e. (simplified) change
a = b + 1;
while (--b & 0x7)
/* ... */
to
a = b;
for (; b & 0x7; b--)
/* ... */
and
while (--a >= 0)
/* ... */
to
for (; a > 0; a--)
/* ... */
- Equip two function arguments of swab() with the 'restrict'
type qualifier in form of the '__restrict' macro. This is
specified by POSIX.1-2001.
<strings.h> as the associated header file.
The prototypes have been moved there from <string.h> because
POSIX.1-2001 said so.
- Conditionally include either <strings.h> or <string.h> based
on whether the [r]index() or str[r]chr() functions are
compiled, respectively.
- Style(9) tells us to
- put a space after the return keyword
- to check for a NUL character without using the ! operator.
- use NULL instead of (type *)NULL where the compiler knows
the type.
Apply these rules.
- Rather use ANSI-C function definitions than K&R ones.
- For index(3), correct second function argument's type; it was
declared to be a `const char' before and is now an `int'.
is <strings.h> and not <string.h> anymore.
- Tell the reader about this change in the HISTORY section.
- Switch to use an ANSI-C function definition.
- Include <strings.h> instead of <string.h> in the source file.
the prototypes for both functions are now in the <strings.h>
header, as required by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001.
- Add one sentence about that in the HISTORY section.
- Include <strings.h> in the source file to have the prototypes
in scope when the _ANSI_SOURCE macro is defined.
concatenation and copy functions using the '__restrict' macro.
This is to satisfy IEEE Std 1003-1.2001.
- Use ANSI-C function definitions.
- Add the 'restrict' keyword to the manual pages, too.
to the function definition of strxfrm(3) in form of our
'__restrict' macro.
- Use an ANSI-C function definition for strxfrm(3).
- Change the manual page accordingly.
the first revision of strcpy(3)'s section is included, but should be
removed as the Security Architecture document is committed and
completed.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
This will be trimmed as the FreeBSD Security Architecture document
is fleshed out and committed.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
more careful about reporting truncation with ERANGE in strerror_r.
Set errno to EINVAL for "unknown" errnum in strerror as required
by P1003.1-200x Draft June 14, 2001.
More carefully document the handling of strerrbuf when errors
(ERANGE, EINVAL) are encountered in strerror_r.
Reviewed by: bde (ongoing discussion)
number of characters that are searched. This is especially useful
with file operations and non-NUL terminated strings.
Silence from: -audit, -hackers
MFC after: 5 days
The corresponding bugs in <wchar.h> have no effect because the function
prototypes there don't have args so the __restrict "keyword" is
misinterpreted as an arg.
o Replace strncpy examples with less confusing ones from
OpenBSD. These examples give more detail and also suggest
using strlcpy(3).
Reviewed by: des, ru, sheldonh
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 3 days
Clarify that if strlcat() does not find a NUL within siz byte it
will not NUL terminate either.
Document boundary condition when size < strlen(dst).
"of", not "on" (from Henric Jungheim)
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC After: 1 week
history info as:
: .Sh STANDARDS If the command, library function or file adheres to a
: specific implementation such as IEEE Std 1003.2
: (``POSIX.2'') or ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'') this
: should be noted here. If the command does not adhere
: to any standard, its history should be noted in the
: HISTORY section.
attempt to read memory when siz is 0
- Clarify comments referring to strlcat() usage
PR: 24278, 24295
Submitted by: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk>
Reviewed by: -audit
pointer" instead. The potential confusion arises because the string/*.3
pages use the term "null-terminated string" (which is permissable). Moreover,
this also makes these two manpages more consistent with the other string/*.3
manpages.
else, it is equivalent to strdup(). So, we will check if the substitution
tables are trivial at the load time, and possibly save 2 calls to
__collate_substitute() in strcoll().
Still, __collate_substitute() should not exist.
- Sort xrefs
- FreeBSD.ORG -> FreeBSD.org
- Be consistent with section names as outlines in mdoc(7)
- Other misc mdoc cleanup.
PR: doc/13144
Submitted by: Alexy M. Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>
1) Safty change from casper dik was added to OpenBSD's sources since I
grabbed them. milltert@openbsd.org
2) Split up strlcpy to improve efficiency of the common case.
milltert@openbsd.org
3) Cleanup of cross references for man page. {alex,aaron}@openbsd.org
Pointed out by: deraadt@openbsd.org
track.
The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;
.\" $Id$
.\"
If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.
Approved by: bde
o use braces to avoid potentially ambiguous else
o don't default to type int (and also remove a useless register
modifier).
o Use parens around assignment values used as truth values.
o Remove unused function.
Reviewed by: obrien and chuckr
The names of m-d variants are now added (manually) to MDSRCS instead
of to SRCS, and the names of all machine-independent (m-i) variants
that can reasonably be replaced by an m-d variant are now added
(manually) to MISRCS instead of to SRCS, so that a simple substitution
can be used to discard the unused m-i variants. MISRCS is potentially
all m-i sources, but the substitution is too simple to be fast, so
MISRCS should be kept reasonably small.
libc/Makefile.inc:
Do the substitution.
libc/i386/string/Makefile.inc:
Add to MDSRCS instead of to SRCS. Add the names of all sources in this
directory, but no others.
libc/string/Makefile.inc
Add to MISRCS instead of to SRCS. Add the names of all sources in this
directory. Don't use (broken) explicit rules for special cases.
so that all these makefiles can be used to build libc_r too.
Added .if ${LIB} == "c" tests to restrict man page builds to libc
to avoid needlessly building them with libc_r too.
Split libc Makefile into Makefile and Makefile.inc to allow the
libc_r Makefile to include Makefile.inc too.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
in a bunch of man pages.
Use the correct .Bx (BSD UNIX) or .At (AT&T UNIX) macros
instead of explicitly specifying the version in the text
in a bunch of man pages.
