freebsd-dev/sbin/ipfw
Brooks Davis 0175018610 Deprecate unmaintainable uses of strncmp to implement abbreviations.
This commit replaces those with two new functions that simplify the code
and produce warnings that the syntax is deprecated.  A small number of
sensible abbreviations may be explicitly added based on user feedback.

There were previously three types of strncmp use in ipfw:
 - Most commonly, strncmp(av, "string", sizeof(av)) was used to allow av
   to match string or any shortened form of it.  I have replaced this
   with a new function _substrcmp(av, "string") which returns 0 if av
   is a substring of "string", but emits a warning if av is not exactly
   "string".

 - The next type was two instances of strncmp(av, "by", 2) which allowed
   the abbreviation of bytes to "by", "byt", etc.  Unfortunately, it
   also supported "bykHUygh&*g&*7*ui".  I added a second new function
   _substrcmp2(av, "by", "bytes") which acts like the strncmp did, but
   complains if the user doesn't spell out the word "bytes".

 - There is also one correct use of strncmp to match "table(" which might
   have another token after it without a space.

Since I changed all the lines anyway, I also fixed the treatment of
strncmp's return as a boolean in many cases.  I also modified a few
strcmp cases as well to be fully consistent.
2005-01-15 01:46:41 +00:00
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ipfw2.c Deprecate unmaintainable uses of strncmp to implement abbreviations. 2005-01-15 01:46:41 +00:00
ipfw.8 Scheduled mdoc(7) sweep. 2005-01-10 16:17:34 +00:00
Makefile Remove blindly-copied extra include path. 2004-10-03 06:32:37 +00:00