On Sat, 2026-05-02 at 11:37 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2026 at 11:55:33AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 11:53 PM Thorsten Blum <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Use strnlen() to limit the destination scan to the provided buffer size. > > > Remove the redundant comment. > > > > Please, do not spend time on amending strlcat(). This function must > > die. Instead, convert current users to use alternative ways. > > Note, there is a patch by Kees to address this in partitions framework > (vast of the users of strlcat() in the kernel). Not sure if it's already > pending in Linux Next or not yet. > > I have done a simple one in ACPI recently (in upstream already I believe). > So, you can use those two examples and continue killing strlcat().
Hi, i would like to add this to the file Documentation/process/deprecated.rst. Does right after strlcpy() make sense? Could you point me to the examples? Thanks Manuel
