Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Merge the gehenna-devsw branch.
To: None <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: MAEKAWA Masahide <bishop@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 09/15/2002 22:40:37
Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp> wrote:
>In article <20020915.221346.68532750.bishop@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
>bishop@rr.iij4u.or.jp wrote:
>
>> Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp> wrote:
>
>> >It seems that devsw_name2blk() (which is called from
>> >cats/autoconf.c:get_device()) copies wrong strings into
>> >devname arg for the device name. Is the attached patch correct?
>> 
>> it seems to be still wrong. how about this?
>
>I think strncpy will append '\0' if source length is less than
>specified length. The statement "devname[devnamelen - 1] = '\0';"
>is required only if strlen(conv->d_name) is equal or more than
>devnamelen.

ah, yes. you and your patch are right. commit it.

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