On 5/10/26 9:54 AM, Manuel Ebner wrote:
> add strlcat and alternatives
>
> Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <[email protected]>
> ---
> Documentation/process/deprecated.rst | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
> b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
> index fed56864d036..b8a65c19796c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
> @@ -162,6 +162,12 @@ if a source string is not NUL-terminated. The safe
> replacement is strscpy(),
> though care must be given to any cases where the return value of strlcpy()
> is used, since strscpy() will return negative errno values when it truncates.
>
> +strlcat()
> +---------
> +strlcat() must re-scan the destination string from the beginning on each
> +call (O(n^2) behavior). Alternatives are seq_buf_puts(), seq_buf_printf(),
> +snprintf() and scnprintf()
Add an ending period.
> +
> %p format specifier
> -------------------
> Traditionally, using "%p" in format strings would lead to regular address
--
~Randy
