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-rw-r--r--string/strnlen.c25
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/string/strnlen.c b/string/strnlen.c
index 83a6f44eca..a777b35ca9 100644
--- a/string/strnlen.c
+++ b/string/strnlen.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* Find the length of STRING, but scan at most MAXLEN characters.
-   Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
 
    The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -19,13 +19,26 @@
 
 #include <string.h>
 
-/* Find the length of STRING, but scan at most MAXLEN characters.
-   If no '\0' terminator is found in that many characters, return MAXLEN.  */
+/* Find the length of S, but scan at most MAXLEN characters.  If no
+   '\0' terminator is found in that many characters, return MAXLEN.  */
 
 size_t
-__strnlen (const char *string, size_t maxlen)
+__strnlen (const char *s, size_t maxlen)
 {
-  const char *end = memchr (string, '\0', maxlen);
-  return end ? (size_t) (end - string) : maxlen;
+  size_t len = 0;
+
+  while (s[len] != '\0' && maxlen > 0)
+    {
+      if (s[++len] == '\0' || --maxlen == 0)
+	return len;
+      if (s[++len] == '\0' || --maxlen == 0)
+	return len;
+      if (s[++len] == '\0' || --maxlen == 0)
+	return len;
+      ++len;
+      --maxlen;
+    }
+
+  return len;
 }
 weak_alias (__strnlen, strnlen)