Re: [RFC][CFLART] ipmi procfs bogosity

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:00:44PM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> To me, It's a lot nicer to do:
> 
>    rv = user_strtoul(....);
>    if (rv < 0)
>        return rv;
> 
> Plus the scanning function I wrote handles arbitrary leading and 
> trailing space, etc.  Not a big deal, but a little nicer.

You can say from the beggining that

	echo -n "    2   " >/proc/FUBAR
	
is illegal and don't add bloat to kernel.

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