From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aliguori@us.ibm.com
Cc: amit.shah@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce get_datafile_dir() to replace bios_dir
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:53:46 -0700 (MST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090226.095346.-658329428.imp@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A6C550.7070005@us.ibm.com>
In message: <49A6C550.7070005@us.ibm.com>
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> writes:
: Amit Shah wrote:
: > bios_dir really is $(PREFIX)/share/qemu/ (or the dir. specified by
: > -L). It currently stores some firmware images and keymaps, so the
: > name bios_dir is really a misnomer.
: >
: > Replace it with a helper, get_datafile_dir().
: >
: >
: > +static void set_datafile_dir(const char *dir)
: > +{
: > + strncpy(datafile_dir, dir, sizeof(datafile_dir) - 1);
: > + datafile_dir[sizeof(datafile_dir) - 1] = 0;
: > +}
: >
:
: While this is a safe usage of strncpy(), strncpy() has such weird
: semantics that it would be better to just use snprintf().
Better performance to, but I doubt that would matter here...
Warner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-26 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-15 11:03 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce get_datafile_dir() to replace bios_dir Amit Shah
2009-02-26 16:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-02-26 16:53 ` M. Warner Losh [this message]
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2009-02-10 7:56 Amit Shah
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