Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation

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To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@...>

Cc: <torvalds@...>, <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation

Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 10:48 pm

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 20:35 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

[...]

quoted text> > Multiple string objects can share the same data, by increasing the nrefs
> > count, a new data is allocated if the string is modified and nrefs > 1.
> 
> If we were trying to get rid of char * throughout the kernel, that might
> make some sense; stringbufs have a more limited target though.
> 

[...]

No contest, my suggestions only make sense for a general uses string
library.

I suspect most in-kernel string manipulations are limited to prepare
buffers to be copied to (and read from) user-space.


- Eric


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[PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 23, 5:12 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Denys Vlasenko, (Tue Oct 30, 11:26 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Pavel Machek, (Sat Oct 27, 3:31 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Pekka Enberg, (Fri Oct 26, 8:05 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Florian Weimer, (Wed Oct 24, 9:21 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Matthew Wilcox, (Wed Oct 24, 10:02 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 23, 10:35 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Eric St-Laurent, (Tue Oct 23, 10:48 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 23, 7:43 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 23, 10:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Andrew Morton, (Tue Oct 23, 10:45 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Eric St-Laurent, (Tue Oct 23, 10:19 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Matt Mackall, (Tue Oct 23, 6:11 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 23, 9:49 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Matt Mackall, (Wed Oct 24, 11:20 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation, Matthew Wilcox, (Wed Oct 24, 11:30 am)

[PATCH 2/4] isdn: Use stringbuf, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 23, 5:12 pm)

[PATCH 3/4] sound: Use stringbuf, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 23, 5:12 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/4] sound: Use stringbuf, Takashi Iwai, (Wed Oct 24, 10:18 am)

Re: [PATCH 3/4] sound: Use stringbuf, Matthew Wilcox, (Wed Oct 24, 12:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/4] sound: Use stringbuf, Takashi Iwai, (Wed Oct 24, 10:50 am)

[PATCH 4/4] partitions: Fix non-atomic printk, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 23, 5:12 pm)


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