On Mon, May 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM Manuel Ebner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2026-05-02 at 11:37 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, May 01, 2026 at 11:55:33AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 11:53 PM Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > Please, do not spend time on amending strlcat(). This function must
> > > die. Instead, convert current users to use alternative ways.
> >
> > Note, there is a patch by Kees to address this in partitions framework
> > (vast of the users of strlcat() in the kernel). Not sure if it's already
> > pending in Linux Next or not yet.
> >
> > I have done a simple one in ACPI recently (in upstream already I believe).
> > So, you can use those two examples and continue killing strlcat().
>
> i would like to add this to the file Documentation/process/deprecated.rst.
> Does right after strlcpy() make sense?
Yes, please.
> Could you point me to the examples?
c2d466b9fe19 ("block: partitions: Replace pp_buf with struct seq_buf")
36cb728754ea ("ACPI: processor: idle: Replace strlcat() with better
alternative")
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
