Re: [PATCH] apply: use strcmp(3) for comparing strings in gitdiff_verify_name()

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 8, 2017, 22:29 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo9sua7gz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <8bd7c4c6-c545-723b-ec4b-262abd8a7f5f@web.de>

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

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> Am 08.07.2017 um 13:08 schrieb Ramsay Jones:
>> On 08/07/17 09:58, René Scharfe wrote:
>>> Avoid running over the end of another -- a C string whose length we
>>> don't know -- by using strcmp(3) instead of memcmp(3) for comparing it
>>> with another C string.
>>
>> I had to read this twice, along with the patch text, before this
>> made any sense. ;-) The missing information being that 'another'
>> was the name of the string variable that we were potentially
>> 'running over the end of'.
>
> Yeah, sorry, encasing that unusual variable name in quotes would
> probably have helped.

What makes it even more confusing is that the variable with the problematic name is referred to as "it" in the last part of the description--- the second occurrence of 'another' is actually not referring to that variable but yet another string that is being compared with it ;-)