On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 02:44:09AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> this change, among many others, is converting *safe* strc*()
> calls into strl* ones.  is there any particular reason you are
> doing this?  you are making the kernel slower for *no good
> reason*.

From the diffs, I don't think you'll ever notice the difference;
the changes are not in any "fast" paths whatsoever. And I don't
think that the speed difference between the two is so big either.

And I agree with itojun that it's just the safer API to use.
 Thomas