CVS update: samba/source
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Sat Nov 17 11:59:26 EST 2001
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 04:56:16PM -0800, Andrew Tridgell wrote:
> > Do we want to do something like the __XXX_DONT_USE_STRCPY() macros
> > for bzero to stop it creeping back in?
>
> no.
>
> I really don't see what the fuss is all about. We already have:
>
> #if !defined(HAVE_BZERO) && defined(HAVE_MEMSET)
> #define bzero(a,b) memset((a),'\0',(b))
> #endif
>
> which means bzero is fine. bzero() also has the big advantage that
> programmers don't screw up the order of the arguments. That happens
> all the time with memset.
I know. I just hate it :-). It's one of those BSD'ism things :-).
I take it you're back home... :-). Good flight ?
I repaired the damage I did to 2.2 and HEAD whilst you were
flying so you shouldn't have any complaints when you cvs
update :-) :-).
Jeremy.
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