weird strncmp usage?

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Nov 2, 2006, 01:26 UTC
Message-ID: <eibhga$tpg$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

the git source seems full of calls similar to

   strncmp (x, "constant string", 15)

is there a reason not to use something like

   int
   strxmp (char const *x, char const *y)
   {
     return strncmp (x, y, strlen (y));
   }

everywhere?

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