From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: support strlcat function
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:00:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190117110022.GB289580@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae629d39-d60a-9446-0e70-c5cd077fcb8a@intel.com>
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:39:02AM +0000, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 16-Jan-19 12:48 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Add the strlcat function to DPDK to exist alongside the strlcpy one.
> > While strncat is generally safe for use for concatenation, the API for
> > the strlcat function is perhaps a little nicer to use, and supports
> > truncation detection.
> >
> > See commit: 5364de644a4b ("eal: support strlcpy function") for more
> > details on the function selection logic, since we only should be using
> > the DPDK-provided version when no system-provided version is present.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> ---
>
> <...>
>
> > static int test_string_fns(void) { if (test_rte_strsplit() < 0)
> > return -1; + if (test_rte_strlcat() < 0) + return -1;
> > return 0; }
> >
>
> Unrelated, but do we also need to test strlcpy, strscpy and other
> functions that were introduced?
>
Yes, I think that would be advisable. I imagine the easiest way to test
them is to do as I have here in running comparisons with a range of inputs,
especially boundary conditions, against a known-good version for platforms
that have the functions built-in.
As always, volunteers and patches welcome... :-)
/Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-17 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-16 12:48 Bruce Richardson
2019-01-17 10:39 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-01-17 11:00 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2019-01-17 11:55 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-01-17 13:10 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-01-17 16:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Bruce Richardson
2019-01-17 16:50 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-01-17 17:05 ` Pattan, Reshma
2019-01-17 17:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Bruce Richardson
2019-02-12 9:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-16 14:29 ` Kevin Traynor
2019-04-16 14:29 ` Kevin Traynor
2019-04-16 14:37 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-16 14:37 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-16 16:03 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-16 16:03 ` Ferruh Yigit
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