[Gllug] C function strcasecmp

[Mark Hemment]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Alain Williams wrote:
>
> I'm hacking the ftp program (inserting the ability to specify timeouts, beta testers wanted).
> It would be nice if the commands to do so could be typed in upper/lower case, thus I
> want to use the strcasecmp() function.
>
> OK: Linux has it, BSD 4.4 has it (the manual says), but how portable is it ?
> Sun, HP, AIX I suppose are the most important.

  strcasecmp(3) is part of the Single Unix Spec (as is strncasecmp(3)).
Although, it is only guaranteed to work in the POSIX locale.

  Just checked a SunOS 5.8 box, and it is there.

Mark



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