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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>
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 10:10:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305251008490.21192-100000@home.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y2awugf2pz9.fsf@cartman.at.fivegeeks.net>


On 25 May 2003, Adam Sampson wrote:
> 
> If you're going to do this, it might make sense to call it "strlcpy"
> for consistency with the OpenBSD-introduced function of the same name
> that's getting included in a lot of userspace these days...

Sure, done. I'll check it in asap (and I'll make the devfs parts that Ben 
was unhappy about use it too).

Somebody (else ;) should probably go through our current uses of strncpy()  
and see if they make sense. Some of them probably do, but I suspect 
anything name/path related does not.

		Linus


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-25 16:58 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 [this message]
2003-05-25 16:40                 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-25 15:51             ` Matt Mackall
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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