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

[Dan Carpenter]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 09:57:17PM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> 
> Should I add this as a patch in lib/string.c or email him first.. What
> is customary in these situations?
> 

Just write up a normal patch and try to merge it through the normal
methods.

It's not that controversial to do:

	strncpy(dest, src, n);
	dest[n] = '\0';

That's what we have been open coding all over the place anyway already.

regards,
dan carpenter

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