From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:58:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hex.c: reduce memory footprint of sha1_to_hex static buffers
Message-ID: <CA+55aFyTcU0zjo9rTxetnRj72YS+Mo52sx85-Rk0woXEbQVfsw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kaEun-mEQPg7cmPV7RJR8A+BxSsSpeAQgcsuJn8L4TGEg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>
> As I could not find any documentation on the
> magical 50 in the early days, I cc'd Linus
> in case there is something I did not think of yet.

Nothing magical, it's just "rounded up from 40 + NUL character".

                        Linus