Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263549AbTEYQ6W (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2003 12:58:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263558AbTEYQ6W (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2003 12:58:22 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:8200 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263549AbTEYQ6T (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2003 12:58:19 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 10:10:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Adam Sampson cc: Ben Collins , Patrick Mochel , Subject: Re: Resend [PATCH] Make KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 790 Lines: 21 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/