[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] eal: support strlcat function

Kevin Traynor ktraynor at redhat.com
Tue Apr 16 16:29:52 CEST 2019


On 17/01/2019 17:30, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Add the strlcat function to DPDK to exist alongside the strlcpy one.
> While strncat is generally safe for use for concatenation, the API for the
> strlcat function is perhaps a little nicer to use, and supports truncation
> detection.
> 
> See commit 5364de644a4b ("eal: support strlcpy function") for more
> details on the function selection logic, since we only should be using the
> DPDK-provided version when no system-provided version is present.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>

Hi - I'd like to backport this to 18.11 stable branch. Not having it is
starting to cause build failures with backports. Let me know if any
objection.

thanks,
Kevin.


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