Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote on 2014/07/12 19:38:26: > > On 12 July 2014 18:30, Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernl...@transmode.se> wrote: > > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote on 2014/07/12 17:47:56: > >> That would work with the current kernel implementation, but > >> the API definition (as described in the socket(7) manpage) > >> says we should pass a NUL-terminated string to the kernel, > >> so it's more robust for us to make sure we do so. > > > > But we emulate user space and we should not "improve" stuff on the way > > should we? > > No, but in this case we don't improve anything. The unterminated > string from the guest is still truncated as a native kernel would do; > it's just that our implementation of that behaviour doesn't rely > on the specific behaviour of the host kernel in this undocumented > corner case. It's not a big deal either way, but given that the code
Right, thank you for your patience. Now I got a little better understanding. Jocke
