On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:12:53 +0000 Walter Harms <wharms@xxxxxx> wrote: > i guess the whole thing can be made more simple > > we have len and buflen > > len=strlen(filter->error_buffer); > if (len >= buflen ) > return -1; > > strcpy(buf, filter->error_buffer); > Either is fine, but we are moving libtraceevent into it's own library, which is located here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git/ -- Steve