On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> Just beeing curious, what's the reason for doing:
>
> int c = Ustrncmp(name, lookup_list[mid].name, len);
> if (c == 0 && Ustrlen(lookup_list[mid].name) == len)
>
> this in search_findtype?
>
> Instead of just
> int c = Ustrcmp(name, lookup_list[mid].name);
Read the comments in the code! In particular, this line:
name lookup type name - not necessarily zero terminated (e.g. dbm*)
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