Re: Resend [PATCH] Make KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE

[Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)]

On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 10:10:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On 25 May 2003, Adam Sampson wrote:
> > 
> > If you're going to do this, it might make sense to call it "strlcpy"
> > for consistency with the OpenBSD-introduced function of the same name
> > that's getting included in a lot of userspace these days...
> 
> Sure, done. I'll check it in asap (and I'll make the devfs parts that Ben 
> was unhappy about use it too).
> 
> Somebody (else ;) should probably go through our current uses of strncpy()  
> and see if they make sense. Some of them probably do, but I suspect 
> anything name/path related does not.

Please hold off. I have a better patch that includes strlcat. Actually
tested.

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