Quoting Samuel Thibault (2014-02-22 15:37:29) > Justus Winter, le Sat 22 Feb 2014 11:25:14 +0100, a écrit : > > * kern/ipc_mig.c (mig_strncpy): Do not zero-terminate the destination > > string. Return length of destination string. > > Well, that calls for some rationale :) > > I guess this is related with the other, MIG change? I.e. that this > modified version of kernel mig_strncpy depends on the fixed MIG > behavior?
No. It's just that the version in mach did not return anything (and thus I believe that sending such a string from the kernel would never have worked). The change in semantics is to make it behave like the version in the glibc (and like strncpy in general). Justus
