Re: [PATCH 1/4] lib/printbuf: New data structure for heap-allocated strings

Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-20T05:02:27Z

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 04:31:59PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> This adds printbufs: simple heap-allocated strings meant for building up
> structured messages, for logging/procfs/sysfs and elsewhere. They've
> been heavily used in bcachefs for writing .to_text() functions/methods -
> pretty printers, which has in turn greatly improved the overall quality
> of error messages.

How does this use case differ from that of lib/seq_buf.c?