linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data

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Date:   Wed, 03 May 2017 21:26:57 +0200
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mszeredi@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data

On Wed, May 03 2017, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> Provide a function, kstrcreate()

<bikeshed>why not kmemdup_nul, since it seems to be to kmemdup exactly as
memdup_user_nul is to memdup_user?</bikeshed> 

Rasmus