RE: [PATCH] scsi: scsi_devinfo.c: Cleaning up unnecessarily complicated in conjunction with strncpy

[Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rickard Strandqvist [mailto:rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> How do you mean?
> 
> strncpy zeroes throughout the remainder of the string "from" until the
> length off to_length, or otherwise guaranteed trailing zero characters
> and a warning is printed.
> 
> Is not it exactly the functionality that is desired?

Ah, I see that in man 3 strcpy: 
    "If the length of src is less than n, strncpy() pads the 
     remainder of dest with null bytes."

I agree that should work.

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Rob Elliott    HP Server Storage