Hi Linus,
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 2:41 AM Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 4:37 PM Joe Perches wrote:
> > > So I'm putting my foot down on yet another broken string copy
> > > interface from people who do not understand this fundamental issue.
> >
> > I think you are mistaken
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 05:43:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I would seriously suggest doing something like
>
>copy_string( dst, dstsize, src, srcsize, FLAGS );
>
> where FLAGS migth be "pad" or whatever. Make it return the size of the
> resulting string, because while it can be
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 5:20 PM Joe Perches wrote:
>
> Umm, btw: have you actually looked at stracpy?
Yes, Joe, I have.
What part of "there are now so many of them that no human being can
keep track of them" didn't you see as a problem?
How many broken string functions are we going to do,
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 4:37 PM Joe Perches wrote:
>
> > So I'm putting my foot down on yet another broken string copy
> > interface from people who do not understand this fundamental issue.
>
> I think you are mistaken about the stracpy limits as
> the only limit is not the source size but the
Hi Joe,
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:08:00 -0700 Joe Perches wrote:
>
> A few examples:
>
> 1: a patch just to MAINTAINERS done via bash script:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/904551f1f198ffac9a0f9c3c99aa966b0a7c76c1.ca...@perches.com/
>
> $ git grep -h "^[FX]:" MAINTAINERS | \
> cut -f2- |
On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 16:28 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 5:08 PM Joe Perches wrote:
> > 2: would be Julia Lawall's stracpy change done
> > with coccinelle: (attached)
>
> I'm not actually convinced about stracpy() and friends.
>
> It seems to be yet another badly
On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 16:28 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 5:08 PM Joe Perches wrote:
> > 2: would be Julia Lawall's stracpy change done
> > with coccinelle: (attached)
>
> I'm not actually convinced about stracpy() and friends.
>
> It seems to be yet another badly
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 5:08 PM Joe Perches wrote:
>
> 2: would be Julia Lawall's stracpy change done
> with coccinelle: (attached)
I'm not actually convinced about stracpy() and friends.
It seems to be yet another badly thought out string interface, and
there are now so many of them that no
On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 09:24 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Joe,
Hi Stephen
> Sorry for the slow response.
No worries. thanks for picking up the thread.
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:58:27 -0700 Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 13:33 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Sat,
Hi Joe,
Sorry for the slow response.
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:58:27 -0700 Joe Perches wrote:
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> On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 13:33 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 13:18 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> []
> > > There are classes of patches generated by scripts that have
> > > no real
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