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* [PATCH] strstrip remove last blank fix
@ 2006-10-26 11:07 Michael Holzheu
  2006-10-26 11:20 ` Pekka J Enberg
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael Holzheu @ 2006-10-26 11:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: penberg; +Cc: linux-kernel, akpm, joern, schwidefsky, ioe-lkml, minyard

Hi Pekka,

strstrip() does not remove the last blank from strings which only consist
of blanks.

Example:
char string[] = "  ";
strstrip(string);

results in " ", but should produce an empty string!

The following patch solves this problem:

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>

---

 lib/string.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -Naurp linux-2.6.18/lib/string.c linux-2.6.18-strstrip-fix/lib/string.c
--- linux-2.6.18/lib/string.c	2006-06-19 14:03:20.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-strstrip-fix/lib/string.c	2006-10-25 18:36:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ char *strstrip(char *s)
 		return s;
 
 	end = s + size - 1;
-	while (end != s && isspace(*end))
+	while (end >= s && isspace(*end))
 		end--;
 	*(end + 1) = '\0';
 


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