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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2017-05-18 10:19:33 -0600
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2017-05-18 10:19:33 -0600
commita1a9af4e9d9ec65c22d3cfe449e0420d17dbedba (patch)
tree05bd08bb1987aa92b84b49b9ee4eee0ba3b2917f /tools/lib/string.c
parent25a0da73f24c95d57381bedd9cd89e4929b1bfde (diff)
parent2ea659a9ef488125eb46da6eb571de5eae5c43f6 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.12-rc1' into docs-next
Linux 4.12-rc1
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/lib/string.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/lib/string.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/string.c b/tools/lib/string.c
index bd239bc1d557..8e678af1c6ee 100644
--- a/tools/lib/string.c
+++ b/tools/lib/string.c
@@ -87,3 +87,12 @@ size_t __weak strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
}
return ret;
}
+
+int prefixcmp(const char *str, const char *prefix)
+{
+ for (; ; str++, prefix++)
+ if (!*prefix)
+ return 0;
+ else if (*str != *prefix)
+ return (unsigned char)*prefix - (unsigned char)*str;
+}