Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 11:36:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mis-feature in -current Message-ID: <199512191836.LAA15039@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199512191836.LAA27072@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Dec 19, 95 11:36:28 am
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> > Actually (not that it would seem to matter), I'm anti-string-manipulation > > in kernel code. The only places this is violated currently is in the > > path parsing code and the NFS argument code. > > We all know about that, but I'm talking about the code that exists in > -current today, not in FreeBSD 10.1. > > > How many times is strlen used, and could it maybe be recoded instead? > > Why would it need to be recoded? As it stands currently (and this will > not change for some time), the code in libkern/strlen.c is completely > adequate to do the job. I meant recoded to not use strlen. wchar_t springs to mind as a likely reason. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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