strstarts: helper function for !strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix))
authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:05:36 +0000 (13:05 -0600)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:35:36 +0000 (13:05 +1030)
commit66f92cf9d415e96a5bdd6c64de8dd8418595d2fc
tree73fe062a18c14cbc96efc4adb8f65cf5421d6a6f
parentaa0d3bb77e780054babcd289484cf4c15180111b
strstarts: helper function for !strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix))

Impact: minor new API

ksplice added a "starts_with" function, which seems like a common need.
When people open-code it they seem to use fixed numbers rather than strlen,
so it's quite a readability win (also, strncmp() almost always wants != 0
on it).

So here's strstarts().

Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
include/linux/string.h