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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 22:47:07 +0200 From: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se> To: "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" <Elliott@...com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...allels.com>, "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: scsi_devinfo.c: Cleaning up unnecessarily complicated in conjunction with strncpy 2014-09-15 0:38 GMT+02:00 Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) <Elliott@...com>: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rickard Strandqvist [mailto:rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se] >> How do you mean? >> >> strncpy zeroes throughout the remainder of the string "from" until the >> length off to_length, or otherwise guaranteed trailing zero characters >> and a warning is printed. >> >> Is not it exactly the functionality that is desired? > > Ah, I see that in man 3 strcpy: > "If the length of src is less than n, strncpy() pads the > remainder of dest with null bytes." > > I agree that should work. > > --- > Rob Elliott HP Server Storage Hi Okay, good. Suspected that there was some misunderstanding :) Kind regards Rickard Strandqvist -- 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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