From owner-cvs-all Sun Feb 23 7: 1: 3 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9918737B401; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 07:01:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0FDF43FBF; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 07:01:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id h1NF0mP4000311; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:00:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:00:48 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys libkern.h malloc.h src/sys/libkern strdup.c src/sys/conf files In-Reply-To: <39831.1046011895@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Per phk's request, I'm going to pass a malloc type into the kernel strdup(), and drop M_STRING. However, I won't have time to make and test this change for a few hours. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 phk@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: > In message <200302231430.h1NEUHZb068134@repoman.freebsd.org>, Robert Watson wri > tes: > >rwatson 2003/02/23 06:30:17 PST > > > > Modified files: > > sys/sys malloc.h libkern.h > > sys/conf files > > Added files: > > sys/libkern strdup.c > > Log: > > Add an implementation of strdup() to libkern. Allocated memory is of > > type M_STRING, now defined in malloc.h. Useful when string parsing > > must occur using the kernel strsep() and we want to avoid toasting > > the source string. > > You should really consider using sbuf's instead. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message