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SubjectRe: strncpy (maybe others) broken on Alpha
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:49:17PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> > Second, strncpy was mostly used in drivers that are rarely (if at all)
> > used on alpha.
>
> Which was evidently the case, since this problem didn't surface until
> the strncpy() call was added to sd.c.

Yeah most of the drivers I was looking at use snprintf and friends.

> I'm happy to report my Alpha is now up and running on 2.6.17-rc2, so
> the fix works for me. Thanks to discussion participants for their time
> and trouble!

Thanks to you too:
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Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer mchouque@free.fr

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