Re: [PATCH 2/3] string: provide strscpy() and strscpy_truncate()

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We actually do have a __must_check tag so it's easy enough to force
> people to check.  A different option is we could make it trigger a

People tend to ignore compiler warnings...

> WARN_ONCE().
>
> #define strXcpy(dest, src, len) (({                             \
>         ssize_t __ret = strscpy_truncate(dest, src, len);       \
>         WARN_ONCE(__ret < 0, "strXcpy trancates\n");            \
>         __ret; }))

Which will probably trigger only in extreme cases in the wild, not during
development.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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