From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche#list.linux-kernel@t-online.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.47: strdup()
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:08:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021117000806.GB443@tapu.f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d6p63ui2.fsf@goat.bogus.local>
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:21:09AM +0100, Olaf Dietsche wrote:
> This *untested* patch adds strdup(). There are about five or six
> different strdup() implementations in various parts of the kernel.
How many users of these functions are there? I really don't like
certain functions which allocate memory in nebulous ways and almost
would prefer all users of this are fixed to specifically allocate and
str[n]cpy copy themselves making it clear who is allocating memory and
also who should free it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-17 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-16 6:21 Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-16 6:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-16 6:31 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-16 15:42 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-17 23:32 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-18 2:43 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-16 6:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-17 0:08 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2002-11-17 1:37 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-17 4:40 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-11-16 8:48 Peter Kjellerstedt
2002-11-16 15:53 ` Olaf Dietsche
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