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From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] create a kstrdup library function
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:49:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2005.04.04.21.49.11.94781@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 42519911.508@grupopie.com

On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:44:17 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the 
> "local" implementations in several places to use this function.
> 
> This is just a cleanup to allow reusing the strdup code, and to prevent 
> bugs in future duplications of strdup.
> 

Just a minor nit; I would use a size_t in kstrdup(),
instead of an int, for the len.  All other functions dealing w/ the len
(strlen, kmalloc, memcpy) expect a size_t.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-04 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-04 19:44 [PATCH] create a kstrdup library function Paulo Marques
2005-04-04 21:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-04-05 11:17   ` Paulo Marques
2005-04-05 11:55     ` Paulo Marques
2005-04-04 21:49 ` Andres Salomon [this message]
2005-04-13 11:23 ` Paulo Marques

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