From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 09:06:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make xstrndup common
Message-ID: <81b0412b0705030206u3a6b8a46qfd98ccf597d3c96e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705022248040.28708@iabervon.org>

On 5/3/07, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> +static inline char *xstrndup(const char *str, int len)
> +{
> +       char *ret;
> +       int i;
> +       for (i = 0; i < len && str[i]; i++)
> +               ;
> +       ret = xmalloc(i + 1);
> +       strncpy(ret, str, i);
> +       ret[i] = '\0';
> +       return ret;
> +}

I'd suggest using platform-optimized memchr:

static inline char *xstrndup(const char *s, int len)
{
    char *p = memchr(s, 0, len);
    int n = p ? p - s: len;
    p = xmalloc(n + 1);
    memcpy(p, s, n);
    p[n] = '\0';
    return p;
}