On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 06:03:16PM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote: > Using memset before strncpy just to ensure a trailing null > character is an unnecessary double writing of a string >
You really should make a function which pads and NUL terminates. I've said this before, of course, but you haven't even tried. I can't get excited about these cleanups which open code NUL termination every where. They are risky and have introduced bugs before. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/