On (08/21/18 15:00), Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > 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.
OK. [..] > Wouldn't be better to split out something like > > strnstrip() out of strim(), with simultaneous changes to strim(), > strstrip(), and use it here? Maybe yes, maybe not. strim() modifies the original string right after it's done moving the end pointer. We can't do that in strcpy_trim() and need to keep the original source string. So probably these two functions don't have that much of a common code after all. -ss