Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: lustre: libcfs: debug.c: Cleaning up unnecessary use of memset in conjunction with strncpy

[Dan Carpenter]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 06:03:16PM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> Using memset before strncpy just to ensure a trailing null
> character is an unnecessary double writing of a string
> 

You really should make a function which pads and NUL terminates.

I've said this before, of course, but you haven't even tried.

I can't get excited about these cleanups which open code NUL termination
every where.  They are risky and have introduced bugs before.

regards,
dan carpenter
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