From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com,
trivial@rustcorp.com.au, Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
dwmw2@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] kstrdup
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:45:13 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030115065959.4DA742C26F@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:19:21 CDT." <20030114031921.GD404@gtf.org>
In message <20030114031921.GD404@gtf.org> you write:
> Poo -- why not store the length in a temp, since the compiler does it
> behind the scenes anyway, and then memcpy instead of strcpy?
Apathy, mainly. There's a mild preference for using string functions
on strings, but... Naah, mainly it's pure lack of caring.
Hope that helps,
Rusty.
PS. If your apathy is less than mine, please submit replacement patch
to trivial.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-15 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-14 1:55 [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] kstrdup Rusty Russell
2003-01-14 3:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-15 6:45 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2003-01-14 3:28 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-14 3:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-14 3:53 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-14 4:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-14 5:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-14 11:48 ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-01-15 6:55 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-19 23:37 ` Pavel Machek
2003-01-22 2:04 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-23 14:02 ` Pavel Machek
2003-01-23 14:21 ` Martin Mares
2003-01-23 14:44 ` Pavel Machek
2003-01-29 4:51 ` Rusty Russell
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