6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel
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6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel
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Re: 6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel
#2As I expected, this is about removing strncpy() from the Linux Kernel, not glib.
Removing strncpy() from glib would be awful for applications :)
Edit. Meant glibc, thanks mattst88
Re: 6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel
#3As I expected, this is about removing strncpy() from the Linux Kernel, not glib. Removing strncpy() from glib would be awful for applications :) Edit. Meant glibc, thanks mattst88
Confusion comes from Linux being used as a replacement term for any distro
Re: 6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel
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Re: 6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel
#5Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612943
Re: 6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel
#6As I expected, this is about removing strncpy() from the Linux Kernel, not glib. Removing strncpy() from glib would be awful for applications :) Edit. Meant glibc, thanks mattst88
I suspect you mean glibc.
Re: 6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel
#7BTW: I was experimenting a bit more with string and string view (strv) types in my e toy library: https://codeberg.org/uecker/noplate/
The tests are maybe better examples than those on godbolt. https://codeberg.org/uecker/noplate/src/branch/main/tests/st...
Re: 6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel
#8When a wordpress site has more ads than arstechnica.
Re: 6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel
#9Not going with something already widely deployed (like strlcpy), which could also be used in userland (strscpy can't, it's return value in case of failure is out of scope) is exactly what I would expect from Linux.
You do you!
Re: 6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel
#10BTW: I was experimenting a bit more with string and string view (strv) types in my e toy library: https://codeberg.org/uecker/noplate/ The tests are maybe better examples than those on godbolt. https://codeberg.org/uecker/noplate/src/branch/main/tests/st...
How does strv2cstr work? I assume it doesn't allocate, so not sure how it can add a null terminator.