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SubjectRe: [BK PATCH] One strdup() to rule them all
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:25:32PM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:14:35PM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote:
> > diff -Nru a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
> > --- a/lib/string.c Mon Aug 25 19:03:26 2003
> > +++ b/lib/string.c Mon Aug 25 19:03:26 2003
> > @@ -582,3 +582,19 @@
> > }
> >
> > #endif
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * strdup - Allocate a copy of a string.
> > + * @s: The string to copy. Must not be NULL.
> > + *
> > + * returns the address of the allocation, or NULL on
> > + * error.
> > + */
> > +char *strdup(const char *s)
> > +{
> > + char *rv = kmalloc(strlen(s)+1, GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (rv)
> > + strcpy(rv, s);
> > + return rv;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(strdup);
>
> Better save strlen(s)+1 in a local size_t variable and use memcpy instead
> of strcpy.

Maybe, but no optimizations like this are needed for a function
such as strdup() which is called relatively rare.

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Dan Aloni
da-x@gmx.net
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