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Message-ID: <20220616161924.vdkujlgyrh4aebq7@gen2.localdomain>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 22:19:24 +0600
From: NRK <nrk@...root.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: hostname is using a case sensitive search in function
 name_from_hosts

On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 04:34:27PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> strcasestr isn't a good match here, because it's quadratic time and
> would be potentially quite slow (depending on file contents). It's
> also not in a usable namespace, and is something of a junk function we
> included for questionable reasons.

A bit off-topic, but is there any desire to improve the strcasestr
performance? If there is, then I can supply the patch as I was playing
around with it a couple weeks ago.

- NRK

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