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| author | riastradh <riastradh@NetBSD.org> | 2013-08-28 15:24:41 +0000 |
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| committer | riastradh <riastradh@NetBSD.org> | 2013-08-28 15:24:41 +0000 |
| commit | bb1d12db8a8adebb626f9db549d429a14a964832 (patch) | |
| tree | 7985a24cf84b4efdae237d3e3124760f5a44547f /lib/libc/string | |
| parent | a454fa8ec73dcbe9f5d629a35f6eef562b14f41a (diff) | |
Fix sense of consttime_memequal and update all callers.
Now it returns true (nonzero) to mean equal and false (zero) to mean
inequal, as the name suggests.
As promised on tech-userlevel back in June:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2013/06/24/msg007843.html
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/string/consttime_memequal.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/consttime_memequal.3 b/lib/libc/string/consttime_memequal.3 index 2f71503b777..bf2b9fe5326 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/consttime_memequal.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/consttime_memequal.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: consttime_memequal.3,v 1.1 2013/06/24 04:21:20 riastradh Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: consttime_memequal.3,v 1.2 2013/08/28 15:24:41 riastradh Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2013 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. .\" All rights reserved. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd June 23, 2013 +.Dd August 28, 2013 .Dt CONSTTIME_MEMEQUAL 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ bytes of memory at .Fa b1 and .Fa b2 -for equality, returning zero if they are identical and nonzero -otherwise. +for equality, returning zero if they are distinct and nonzero if they +are identical. .Pp The time taken by .Fn consttime_memequal |
