On 9 July 2016 at 20:13, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7/8/2016 6:43 PM, Markus Mayer wrote: >> >> This series introduces a family of generic string case conversion >> functions. This kind of functionality is needed in several places in >> the kernel. Right now, everybody seems to be implementing their own >> copy of this functionality. >> >> Based on the discussion of the previous version of this series[1] and >> the use cases found in the kernel, it does look like having several >> flavours of case conversion functions is beneficial. The use cases fall >> into three categories: >> - copying a string and converting the case while specifying a >> maximum length to mimic strlcpy() >> - copying a string and converting the case without specifying a >> length to mimic strcpy() >> - converting the case of a string in-place (i.e. modifying the >> string that was passed in) >> >> Consequently, I am proposing these new functions: >> void strlcpytoupper(char *dst, const char *src, size_t len); >> void strlcpytolower(char *dst, const char *src, size_t len); >> void strcpytoupper(char *dst, const char *src); >> void strcpytolower(char *dst, const char *src); >> void strtoupper(char *s); >> void strtolower(char *s); > > > You may want to read the article here: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/659214/ I'll read that. Thanks. > and follow up some of the discussion threads on LKML about the best > semantics to advertise for the strlcpy/strscpy variants. It might be > helpful to return some kind of overflow/truncation error from your > copy functions so people can error-check the result. I am inclined to agree. However, everybody has been telling me that these functions should be void. Originally they weren't. Regards, -Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
