From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>, Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Resend [PATCH] Make KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 12:40:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030525164057.GA439@phunnypharm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305251008490.21192-100000@home.transmeta.com>
On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 10:10:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On 25 May 2003, Adam Sampson wrote:
> >
> > If you're going to do this, it might make sense to call it "strlcpy"
> > for consistency with the OpenBSD-introduced function of the same name
> > that's getting included in a lot of userspace these days...
>
> Sure, done. I'll check it in asap (and I'll make the devfs parts that Ben
> was unhappy about use it too).
>
> Somebody (else ;) should probably go through our current uses of strncpy()
> and see if they make sense. Some of them probably do, but I suspect
> anything name/path related does not.
Please hold off. I have a better patch that includes strlcat. Actually
tested.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-25 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-13 6:26 [PATCH] Make KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE Ben Collins
2003-05-13 7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-13 7:14 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-13 15:08 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-05-16 0:20 ` Resend " Ben Collins
2003-05-16 18:43 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-05-25 0:07 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-25 3:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-25 3:10 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-25 12:03 ` Adam Sampson
2003-05-25 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-25 16:40 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2003-05-25 15:51 ` Matt Mackall
2003-05-25 17:25 ` Riley Williams
2003-05-25 18:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-05-25 23:42 ` Matt Mackall
2003-05-25 16:41 ` Ben Collins
2003-07-11 9:50 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-05-25 8:02 ` Russell King
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-25 9:21 René Scharfe
2003-05-25 12:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-25 17:24 ` Edgar Toernig
2003-05-25 19:05 ` René Scharfe
2003-05-25 18:16 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-25 20:11 ` René Scharfe
2003-05-25 19:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-05-25 19:31 ` René Scharfe
2003-05-26 1:13 ` Linus Torvalds
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