Hi, On Thursday 01 September 2005 22:30, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:00:44PM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote: > > Plus the scanning function I wrote handles arbitrary leading and > > trailing space, etc. Not a big deal, but a little nicer. > > You can say from the beggining that > > echo -n " 2 " >/proc/FUBAR > > is illegal and don't add bloat to kernel.
No, user interfaces should be robust. Just remember the mantra "Be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send." I would suggest adding sth. like Coreys user_strtoul() to lib/string.c which would reduce bloat and security threats for the kernel. Regards Ingo Oeser
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