From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>,
Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Resend [PATCH] Make KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 10:51:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030525155102.GN23715@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305242045050.1666-100000@home.transmeta.com>
On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 08:52:53PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> How about just adding a sane
>
> int copy_string(char *dest, const char *src, int len)
> {
> int size;
>
> if (!len)
> return 0;
> size = strlen(src);
> if (size >= len)
> size = len-1;
> memcpy(dest, src, size);
> dest[size] = '\0';
> return size;
> }
The return value here isn't particularly useful. The OpenBSD
strlcpy/strlcat variant tell you how big the result should have been
so that you can realloc if need be.
--
Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : of or relating to the moon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-25 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-13 6:26 [PATCH] Make KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE Ben Collins
2003-05-13 7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-13 7:14 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-13 15:08 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-05-16 0:20 ` Resend " Ben Collins
2003-05-16 18:43 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-05-25 0:07 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-25 3:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-25 3:10 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-25 12:03 ` Adam Sampson
2003-05-25 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-25 16:40 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-25 15:51 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2003-05-25 17:25 ` Riley Williams
2003-05-25 18:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-05-25 23:42 ` Matt Mackall
2003-05-25 16:41 ` Ben Collins
2003-07-11 9:50 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-05-25 8:02 ` Russell King
2003-05-25 9:21 René Scharfe
2003-05-25 12:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-25 17:24 ` Edgar Toernig
2003-05-25 19:05 ` René Scharfe
2003-05-25 18:16 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-25 20:11 ` René Scharfe
2003-05-25 19:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-05-25 19:31 ` René Scharfe
2003-05-26 1:13 ` Linus Torvalds
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