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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] uaccess: add copy_word_from_user
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Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Hehe, I was going to use that name for the function that supplies that 
> delimiter. But then we have the question. Should the delimiter be a single 
> character. Do we allow any delimiter? Or simply pass in a function that 
> will determine the delimiter?
> 

If you allow any delimiter we might call it strtok_from_user().  ;)

	-hpa