Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Sep 2014 01:39:09 +0300 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: lustre: libcfs: debug.c: Cleaning up unnecessary use of memset in conjunction with strncpy |
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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
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