ASSERT_STRNE(9)

💅 NAME

ASSERT_STRNE — and that's it, bestie 😭 the description slot on this page is literally empty. The man page shipped with a dangling dash and nothing after it, so the name is all we get. No cap. We work with what we've got 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS

ASSERT_STRNE (expected , seen );

That's the whole call. Two things go in, and yes the spacing is exactly that cursed — expected then , then seen — don't come for me, I'm just reading the page 📖✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS

• expected — the expected value. The one you thought it was gonna be 💭
• seen — the measured value. The one reality actually handed you 👀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION

Okay so here's the line, verbatim, because I refuse to paraphrase code:

ASSERT_STRNE(expected, measured): strcmp(expected, measured)

Notice something? 👀 The synopsis up there called the second argument seen, and the description down here calls it measured. That's not me being messy — that's literally what the page says, both spellings, both living on the same man page, iconic behavior honestly 💀

And the shape of it is strcmp(expected, measured) — that's the whole description, that's the whole vibe. strcmp, in parens, on the two arguments. That's it. That's the page 🔥

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🌈 SEE ALSO

The whole friend group showed up for this one 🫶 so here's everybody, no one left behind:

• Kernel file ./tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h example(9) — the actual header file, the source of truth, the main character 👑
• TH_LOG(9)
• SKIP(9)
• TEST(9)
• TEST_SIGNAL(9)
• FIXTURE_DATA(9)
• FIXTURE(9)
• FIXTURE_SETUP(9)
• FIXTURE_TEARDOWN(9)
• FIXTURE_TEARDOWN_PARENT(9)
• FIXTURE_VARIANT(9)
• FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(9)
• TEST_F(9)
• TEST_HARNESS_MAIN(9)
• operators(9)
• ASSERT_EQ(9)
• ASSERT_NE(9)
• ASSERT_LT(9)
• ASSERT_LE(9)
• ASSERT_GT(9)
• ASSERT_GE(9)
• ASSERT_NULL(9)
• ASSERT_TRUE(9)
• ASSERT_FALSE(9)
• ASSERT_STREQ(9)
• EXPECT_EQ(9)
• EXPECT_NE(9)
• EXPECT_LT(9)
• EXPECT_LE(9)
• EXPECT_GT(9)
• EXPECT_GE(9)
• EXPECT_NULL(9)
• EXPECT_TRUE(9)
• EXPECT_FALSE(9)
• EXPECT_STREQ(9)
• EXPECT_STRNE(9)
• XFAIL_ADD(9)

Ngl, the ASSERT_* girlies and the EXPECT_* girlies are both fully represented here, plus all the FIXTURE_* lore. Go read them, they're literally one page away 🌸

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That's the whole thing, bestie — no hidden sections, no surprise environment variables, no exit statuses, just a very short page living its best life 💜

Signed off from ./tools/testing/selftests, dated October 2026, manual name ASSERT_STRNE(9) — slay, periodt 🎀✨