On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:23:29PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> In that case, what would you think of a patch to use strcpy instead?
> 
>   -           strncpy(object->comm, current->comm, sizeof(object->comm));
>   +           strcpy(object->comm, current->comm);

Another option would be to use strlcpy().  It's slightly neater than
the strncpy() followed by a NUL assignment.

> 
> Is there a preferred method of adding a static_assert-like statement?
> I see compile_time_assert and a few similar macros, but I haven't
> spotted anything that is used project-wide.

BUILD_BUG_ON().

regards,
dan carpenter

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