lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2014]   [Sep]   [18]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging: lustre: lustre: libcfs: debug.c: Cleaning up unnecessary use of memset in conjunction with strncpy
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 09:57:17PM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
>
> Should I add this as a patch in lib/string.c or email him first.. What
> is customary in these situations?
>

Just write up a normal patch and try to merge it through the normal
methods.

It's not that controversial to do:

strncpy(dest, src, n);
dest[n] = '\0';

That's what we have been open coding all over the place anyway already.

regards,
dan carpenter



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2014-09-19 01:01    [W:0.058 / U:0.136 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site