Re: [BK PATCH] One strdup() to rule them all

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:37:45PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> On Mon, 25 August 2003 19:14:35 +0300, Dan Aloni wrote:
> > 
> > While working on the fix to network devices names and sysctl,
> > I fought to urge to create yet another strdup() implementation
> > This came up.
> 
> Nice one.
> 
> > +/**
> > + * strdup - Allocate a copy of a string.
> > + * @s: The string to copy. Must not be NULL.
> > + *
> > + * returns the address of the allocation, or NULL on
> > + * error. 
> > + */
> > +char *strdup(const char *s)
> > +{
> > +	char *rv = kmalloc(strlen(s)+1, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (rv)
> > +		strcpy(rv, s);
> > +	return rv;
> > +}
> 
> My gut feeling is always afraid when something "must not be NULL",
> someone will ignore this and Bad Things (tm) happen.  Is strdup ever
> used such performance critical code that the extra check would hurt?
> 
> Apart from that, well done.


Rusty created this patch, a long time ago.  :)

	Jeff