From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sscanf: don't ignore field widths for numeric conversions
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:32:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121102143247.6c581e16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5093EA4802000078000A61D4@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:44:08 +0000
"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> This is another step towards better standard conformance. Rather than
> adding a local buffer to store the specified portion of the string
> (with the need to enforce an arbitrary maximum supported width to
> limit the buffer size), do a maximum width conversion and then drop as
> much of it as is necessary to meet the caller's request.
>
> Also fail on negative field widths.
>
> ...
>
> + simple_strtol(str, &next, base) :
simple_strtol() kerndoc says "This function is obsolete. Please use
kstrtol instead." Can we?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-02 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-02 14:44 Jan Beulich
2012-11-02 21:32 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-11-05 9:08 ` Jan Beulich
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