Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 18:01:40 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
        Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>,
        gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
        Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] string: provide strscpy() and strscpy_truncate()
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:01:16PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> +ssize_t strscpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count)
> +{
> +	ssize_t res = strscpy_truncate(dest, src, count);
> +	if (res < 0 && count != 0)
> +		dest[0] = '\0';

How is this better than returning a truncated string?  Is it just
because the caller was naughty so we give them a spanking?

> +	return res;
> +}

regards,
dan carpenter
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