linux-kernel - Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 1/2] string: Add stracpy and stracpy

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Date:   Thu, 25 Jul 2019 07:12:54 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:     David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
        cocci <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 1/2] string: Add stracpy and stracpy_pad
 mechanisms]

On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 08:58 -0500, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Joe Perches wrote:
[]
> > Just for completeness and correctness, as I at
> > least don't find an existing use:
> > 
> > Perhaps this "x =" should also include += and +
> > and the various other operators that are possible
> > or does SmPL grammar already do that?
> 
> I could do this.  One might though think that if someone went to the
> trouble of computing +=, these would be cases that we don't want to
> change?

Maybe I quoted the wrong bit.  But exactly.

Anywhere the return value of strlcpy is used, not just as
an assignment, is an instance that should not be changed.

Thanks for doing this.