Re: [PATCH 1/9] Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data

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To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data
From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 21:13:07 +0100
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Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Provide a function, kstrcreate()
> 
> <bikeshed>why not kmemdup_nul, since it seems to be to kmemdup exactly as
> memdup_user_nul is to memdup_user?</bikeshed> 

Yeah, that would work too.  Or kmem2str().

David

References:
- Re: [PATCH 1/9] Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data
  - From: Rasmus Villemoes
- [RFC][PATCH 0/9] VFS: Introduce mount context
  - From: David Howells
- [PATCH 1/9] Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data
  - From: David Howells

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