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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:40:15 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:40:15 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 6.05.01.upstream/6.05.01
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diff --git a/man3/memmem.3 b/man3/memmem.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f87203c --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/memmem.3 @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" Linux libc source code +.\" 386BSD man pages +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:50:48 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Interchanged 'needle' and 'haystack'; added history, aeb, 980113. +.TH memmem 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +memmem \- locate a substring +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */" +.B #include <string.h> +.PP +.BI "void *memmem(const void " haystack [. haystacklen "], size_t " haystacklen , +.BI " const void " needle [. needlelen "], size_t " needlelen ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR memmem () +function finds the start of the first occurrence +of the substring +.I needle +of length +.I needlelen +in the memory +area +.I haystack +of length +.IR haystacklen . +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR memmem () +function returns a pointer to the beginning of the +substring, or NULL if the substring is not found. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR memmem () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +None. +.SH HISTORY +musl libc 0.9.7; +FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 5.4, NetBSD, Illumos. +.SH BUGS +.\" This function was broken in Linux libraries up to and including libc 5.0.9; +.\" there the +.\" .IR needle +.\" and +.\" .I haystack +.\" arguments were interchanged, +.\" and a pointer to the end of the first occurrence of +.\" .I needle +.\" was returned. +.\" +.\" Both old and new libc's have the bug that if +.\" .I needle +.\" is empty, +.\" .I haystack\-1 +.\" (instead of +.\" .IR haystack ) +.\" is returned. +In glibc 2.0, if +.I needle +is empty, +.BR memmem () +returns a pointer to the last byte of +.IR haystack . +This is fixed in glibc 2.1. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR bstring (3), +.BR strstr (3) |