From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270471AbTHLQT6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:19:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270479AbTHLQT6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:19:58 -0400 Received: from h80ad2614.async.vt.edu ([128.173.38.20]:43139 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270471AbTHLQT5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:19:57 -0400 Message-Id: <200308121619.h7CGJpfZ010471@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: William Gallafent Cc: Yoshinori Sato , linux kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: generic strncpy - off-by-one error In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:54:05 BST." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200308121503.h7CF3JfZ009007@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1544888756P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:19:50 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_-1544888756P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:54:05 BST, William Gallafent said: > Er, consider the case of count == 1. Fenceposts can be dangerous things. Amen, given the original code and the first attempt to fix it. I was actually trolling for "accidentally correct" versus "intentionally correct". /Valdis (who has posted "convince me the code is right THIS time" waay too many times on waaay too many lists already today - including one count-the-on-bits scheme that only worked for an all-zeros input.. ;) --==_Exmh_-1544888756P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE/OROmcC3lWbTT17ARAn9BAJ0ZWyZEpvQ0VdYXxLRKMqmLc9FbpwCgq1O9 udZSR4PoA+fiuu+hNeKU3gk= =PbnR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1544888756P--