Re: [TRIVIAL] kstrdup

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:56:53 -0400

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>You should save the strlen result to a temp var, and then s/strcpy/memcpy/
>
>
> No, you should just not do this. I don't see the point.

strcpy has a test for each byte of its contents, and memcpy doesn't.
Why search 's' for NULL twice?

Jeff

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