Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 10:11:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [2.5 patch] Change strlcpy and strlcat
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On Mon, 26 May 2003, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> Your API is compatible with *BSD but I'm wondering whether something 
> slightly different might make error handling for callers easier:

Well, judging by the fact that pretty much 99.9% of all users won't ever
care about the return value. And coupled with the fact that the current
behaviour is compatible with BSD (except for the BUG_ON() that I added,
and I have no idea what BSD does for that case, since it pretty clearly
_is_ a bug), I definitely prefer having standard return values than trying 
to make it "easier".

The BSD return values do actually make sense for nested operations.

		Linus

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