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Message-Id: <1193194112.8866.7.camel@perkele> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:48:32 -0400 From: Eric St-Laurent <ericstl34@...patico.ca> To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> Cc: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 20:35 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: [...] > > Multiple string objects can share the same data, by increasing the nrefs > > count, a new data is allocated if the string is modified and nrefs > 1. > > If we were trying to get rid of char * throughout the kernel, that might > make some sense; stringbufs have a more limited target though. > [...] No contest, my suggestions only make sense for a general uses string library. I suspect most in-kernel string manipulations are limited to prepare buffers to be copied to (and read from) user-space. - Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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