[dm-devel] [PATCH 1/4] libmultipath: get_udev_uid: make sure pp->wwid is 0-terminated

Martin Wilck mwilck at suse.de
Fri Jul 14 14:21:20 PDT 2017


On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 20:21 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 21:21 +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> > 
> > Let's have a strncpy vs. strlcpy discussion :D !
> > 
> > I can do this if you insist, but I don't see a big benefit. We've
> > tested with the patch I submitted.
> 
> My comments were not intended as an invitation to open a strncpy()
> vs. strlcpy()
> discussion. What I wanted to illustrate with the above patch is that
> when using
> strlcpy() it is not necessary to explicitly zero-terminate a string
> because
> strlcpy() guarantees zero-termination. Compact code that is as
> readable as more
> verbose code is always better because compact code is easier to
> verify.

OK. I'll wait for comments on the other patches, and change v2 of this
patch to your version.

Martin




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