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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:19:21 +0300
From: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>
To: Lukasz Pawlik <lucas.pawlik@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with operator name length
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Hi Lukasz,

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010, Lukasz Pawlik wrote:
> -	net.operator_name = g_strdup(name);
> -
> +	net.operator_name = g_strndup(name, 16);

Is it possible that the the format of the name would be such that byte
boundaries are not always the same as character boundaries (e.g. UTF-8)?
If so, using g_strndup sounds dangerous since it assumes one byte per
character.

Johan