Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:35:09 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, julian@elischer.org, bde@zeta.org.au, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: switching to if_xname from if_name and if_unit Message-ID: <20020814113509.A15848@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20020814.122515.26283996.imp@bsdimp.com>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:25:15PM -0600 References: <20020814095606.A32608@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208141020200.22277-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20020814105903.A8808@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20020814.122515.26283996.imp@bsdimp.com>
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--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:25:15PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20020814105903.A8808@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> > Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes: > : > > to use. The obvious thing is strlcpy, but I don't think we have th= at in > : > > the kernel. We could use strncpy with the usual tricks or snprintf. >=20 > strlcpy is in the kernel now. OK, I think I'll use: strlcpy(ifp->if_xname, device_get_nameunit(dev), IFNAMSIZ); > As for long device names, that's orthogonal to what we're talking > about. I'd just go ahead and do this. Yah, it's pretty much unrelated. If anything this should make that change easier. -- Brooks PS. Does anyone have a Perforce for Dummies document handy? I was thinking this might be a good project to give it a try with. --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9WqLcXY6L6fI4GtQRAgy8AKCcoCYFerFWhJicQiCzAqdTXny59QCffkr3 ZFspL8pV6sOFj/T3jjEka0A= =sPp3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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