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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: should strstr    return const char*  ?
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:08:17 -0500
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On Sunday 28 February 2010 16:29:59 Jon wrote:
> I see this function on Ubuntu 9.10:
>=20
>       char *strstr(const char *haystack, const char *needle);
>=20
> Should it not return as const char * though?

man pages document the API only.  if you want to propose changing a functio=
n,=20
you'd have to ask the glibc mainling lists and/or more likely the POSIX=20
mailing lists.
=2Dmike

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