VFS Modules using the old pstrcpy functions

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Sep 20 13:22:41 MDT 2011


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:02:56PM +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to rewrite an old VFS module, but have hit some issues to do
> with the loss of pstrings. I've solved 90% of them, but have now got to
> the problem where there are some pstrcpy functions being called.
> 
> Based on the log error of "undefined symbol: pstrcpy" I assume these
> functions disappeared with pstrings. 
> 
> Is there a recommended way of doing this now, or is it just a case of
> allocating the memory and copying the string myself?
> 
> Thanks for any guidance on this issue.

You'll have to remove all pstring functions yourself. Work out
what they were trying to do and use the talloc_strXXX functions
instead.

Sorry for the trouble, but we really needed to get rid of all
hard coded path size functions.

Jeremy.


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