On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 15:20 +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> It's not really removed, the trailing NUL is just ignored when checking
> the length of the attribute.
Good point.
> This is needed for older netlink families
> where strings are not always NUL terminated, yet we still need to accept
> the
* Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-03-23 00:12
> Looking through the netlink/attr.c code I noticed that NLA_STRING
> attributes that end with a binary NUL have it removed before passing it
> to the consumer.
It's not really removed, the trailing NUL is just ignored when checking
the length o
Looking through the netlink/attr.c code I noticed that NLA_STRING
attributes that end with a binary NUL have it removed before passing it
to the consumer.
For wireless, we have a few places where we need to be able to accept
any (even binary) values, for example for the SSID; the SSID can validly
