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Subject[PATCH] strstrip remove last blank fix
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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