On 7/8/2016 6:43 PM, Markus Mayer wrote: > This series introduces a family of generic string case conversion > functions. This kind of functionality is needed in several places in > the kernel. Right now, everybody seems to be implementing their own > copy of this functionality. > > Based on the discussion of the previous version of this series[1] and > the use cases found in the kernel, it does look like having several > flavours of case conversion functions is beneficial. The use cases fall > into three categories: > - copying a string and converting the case while specifying a > maximum length to mimic strlcpy() > - copying a string and converting the case without specifying a > length to mimic strcpy() > - converting the case of a string in-place (i.e. modifying the > string that was passed in) > > Consequently, I am proposing these new functions: > void strlcpytoupper(char *dst, const char *src, size_t len); > void strlcpytolower(char *dst, const char *src, size_t len); > void strcpytoupper(char *dst, const char *src); > void strcpytolower(char *dst, const char *src); > void strtoupper(char *s); > void strtolower(char *s);
You may want to read the article here: https://lwn.net/Articles/659214/ and follow up some of the discussion threads on LKML about the best semantics to advertise for the strlcpy/strscpy variants. It might be helpful to return some kind of overflow/truncation error from your copy functions so people can error-check the result. -- Chris Metcalf, Mellanox Technologies http://www.mellanox.com
