Re: Resend [PATCH] Make KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 08:52:53PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> How about just adding a sane
> 
> 	int copy_string(char *dest, const char *src, int len)
> 	{
> 		int size;
> 
> 		if (!len)
> 			return 0;
> 		size = strlen(src);
> 		if (size >= len)
> 			size = len-1;
> 		memcpy(dest, src, size);
> 		dest[size] = '\0';
> 		return size;
> 	}

The return value here isn't particularly useful. The OpenBSD
strlcpy/strlcat variant tell you how big the result should have been
so that you can realloc if need be.

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