Daniel writes:
> [re strtok for mount option parsing]
>
> BUGS Never use this function. If you do, note that:
> This function modifies its first argument.
> The identity of the delimiting character is lost.
> This functions cannot be used on constant strings.
> The strtok() function uses a static buffer while
> parsing, so it's not thread safe. Use strtok_r()
> if this matters to you.
Luckily, when mount(8) is trying to mount a filesystem, it passes the
mount options into the kernel each time, which does copy_from_user(),
so the fact that strtok() breaks the data is OK. The only time this
is bad is with Stephen's ext3 rootflags option...
Cheers, Andreas
--
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\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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