On Tue, 2018-08-21 at 20:44 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > Something like below? Not tested, since we are still in "is this > what we want" phase.
> Returning the length of dst/-EOVERFLOW is a bit inconvenient, because > "the length" forces us to have size_t return, which is unsigned. We have for ages ssize_t to workaround that. > size_t strcpy_trim(char *dst, size_t dstsz, const char *src, size_t > srcsz) > { > const char *end; > size_t ret = 0; > size_t len = 0; > > if (!dstsz || !srcsz) > goto out; > > end = src + srcsz - 1; > while (end >= src && isspace(*end)) > end--; > end++; > while (src < end && isspace(*src)) > src++; > len = (src >= end) ? 0 : end - src; > if (!len) > goto out; > > ret = len; > if (len >= dstsz) > len = dstsz - 1; > memcpy(dst, src, len); > out: > dst[len] = '\0'; > return ret == len ? ret : -EOVERFLOW; > } Wouldn't be better to split out something like strnstrip() out of strim(), with simultaneous changes to strim(), strstrip(), and use it here? -- Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com> Intel Finland Oy