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From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: willy@debian.org
Cc: aebr@win.tue.nl, vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, jvb@prairienet.org,
	bcollins@debian.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	gan@planetlaz.com
Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH] bad strlcpy conversion breaks toshiba_acpi
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:26:20 -0600 (MDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030727.152620.127108646.imp@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030727210203.GU1485@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

In message: <20030727210203.GU1485@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
            Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:
: On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 06:57:09PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
: > strlcpy is for strings, not for character arrays.
: > The *BSD version accesses the source past the size-1 characters
: > that are copied: 
: > 	while (*s++)
: > 		;
: > Thus, replacing strncpy (used to copy character arrays, possibly
: > not 0-terminated) by strlcpy is wrong.

Ah, that's to get the silly return value correct :-(.

Warner

      reply	other threads:[~2003-07-28  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-25 14:46 [PATCH] bad strlcpy conversion breaks toshiba_acpi John Belmonte
2003-07-25 16:15 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-25 16:57   ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-27 21:02     ` [ACPI] " Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-27 21:26       ` M. Warner Losh [this message]

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