string comparisons in C

[Steve Summit]

In article <10533 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <12689 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs at adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
>>No vendor should provide a routine named "pnmatch."
>That's based on a misunderstanding.  The actual constraint is that a
>vendor is not supposed to interfere with an application's having its
>own function (or external variable, or whatever) named "pnmatch".

Indeed.  I should know better than to post assertions about a
standard I've never actually read.

                                            Steve Summit
                                            scs at adam.pika.mit.edu