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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com,
       trivial@rustcorp.com.au, Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] kstrdup 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:02:15 BST."
             <20030123140215.GA1229@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> 
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:51:30 +1100
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In message <20030123140215.GA1229@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> you write:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > Everyone loves reimplementing strdup.  Give them a kstrdup (basically
> > > > from drivers/md).
> > > 
> > > I believe it would be better to call it strdup.
> > 
> > No.  Don't confuse people.
> 
> Ehm?! What's confusing on strdup? Or you want to also introduce
> kmemcpy, kmemcmp, ksprintf etc?

It has an extra argument, like kmalloc.

Rusty.
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