From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:13:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alloc_ref(): allow for trailing NUL
Message-ID: <20070928131348.GB21309@artemis.corp>
In-Reply-To: <20070928124102.GA21309@artemis.corp>

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:41:02PM +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> 	void *xflexdupz(size_t offset, void *src, size_t len)
> 	{
> 		char *p = xmalloc(offset + len + 1);
> 		memset(p, 0, offset);
> 		memcpy(p + offset, src, len);
> 		p[offset + len] = '\0';
> 		return p;
> 	}
> 
>   Then alloc_ref could be a wrapper around:
>   xflexdupz(offsetof(struct ref, name), ..., ...).
> 
>   Of course right now alloc_ref doesn't perform any kind of copy, but a
> grep -A1 will convince you that it's not a problem:

  [...]
> 	remote.c:		ret = alloc_ref(strlen(name) + 6);
> 	remote.c-		sprintf(ret->name, "refs/%s", name);

  okay forget about me, my proposal doesn't work, too bad :)



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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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