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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:27:20 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
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On 09/18, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> It's doubtful that rolling your own single loop actually performs better
> than just calling strlen and memcpy.



This is needed to advance 'name' if d_path() fails with !ENAMETOOLONG.
Probably needs a comment.

Or perhaps 'filename = ""' case can handle this case itself. In this
case we do not even need strlen(), remaining = name - filename.

Oleg.