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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:54:46 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] uaccess: add copy_word_from_user
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:40:19 +0100
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why not expand it to a copy_delimited_from_user() ?
> This way we could use any separator we want, not just spaces.
> We could use one more parameter for the separator and
> copy_work_from_user would be a wrapper above.

hah!  That was quick.

Yes, you could pass in a delimiter string or a pointer to a user-supplier
function (which defaults to isspace() if NULL?) or whatever.  But we can
do that if and when it is needed.