linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/24] getgrent_r.3: Use sizeof() to get buffer size (instead of hardcoding macro name)

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Date:   Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:08:01 +0200
From:   Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@...il.com>
To:     mtk.manpages@...il.com
Cc:     Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@...il.com>,
        lnx-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Walter Harms <wharms@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/24] getgrent_r.3: Use sizeof() to get buffer size
 (instead of hardcoding macro name)

Hi Michael

On 2020-09-24 12:04, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> [..]
> 
>> I was reverting the 3 patches I introduced (they changed from solution 1
>> to solution 2), and also was grepping for already existing solution 2 in
>> the pages (it seems that solution 2 was a bit more extended than
>> solution 1).
> 
> Just so I can refresh my cache, which commits were those?

* b9bf90297 - Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:13:36 +0200 (2 weeks ago)
|           unix.7: Use sizeof() to get buffer size (instead of 
hardcoding macro name) - Alejandro Colomar

[...]

* 1656c1702 - Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:13:34 +0200 (2 weeks ago)
|           getpwent_r.3: Use sizeof() to get buffer size (instead of 
hardcoding macro name) - Alejandro Colomar
* cf254328f - Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:13:33 +0200 (2 weeks ago)
|           getgrent_r.3: Use sizeof() to get buffer size (instead of 
hardcoding macro name) - Alejandro Colomar


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 

Cheers,

Alex