Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Sep 2015 16:05:43 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel/sysctl.c: If "count" including the terminating byte '\0' the write system call should retrun success. |
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 20:39:31 +0800 Sean Fu <fxinrong@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Accepting a '\0' is not at all reasonable for a text interface. The > > application that does it is buggy. > It is hard to comprehend that the current kernel can accept two bytes > "1 ", "1\t", "1\n" except "1\0".
Um, it does not seem hard to comprehend at all. As this is a string, and it acts the same as a printf() or strlen.
strlen("1 ") == 2 strlen("1\t") == 2 strlen("1\n") == 2 strlen("1\0") == 1
Big difference to me.
-- Steve
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