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SubjectRe: [BK PATCH] One strdup() to rule them all
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:37:45PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> On Mon, 25 August 2003 19:14:35 +0300, Dan Aloni wrote:
> >
> > While working on the fix to network devices names and sysctl,
> > I fought to urge to create yet another strdup() implementation
> > This came up.
>
> Nice one.
>
> > +/**
> > + * 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;
> > +}
>
> My gut feeling is always afraid when something "must not be NULL",
> someone will ignore this and Bad Things (tm) happen. Is strdup ever
> used such performance critical code that the extra check would hurt?
>
> Apart from that, well done.


Rusty created this patch, a long time ago. :)

Jeff



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