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Subject: Re: strnlen?
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 17:58:32 -0600
Hi Michael,

On 12/01/2016 05:32 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> Unless someone objects, I'm going to add epicsStrNLen() to epicsString.h
> on the 3.14 branch [2] when I fix a seemingly broken nil test in
> camessage.c [1].  I don't know if this can actually cause a crash, but
> knowingly calling strlen() on a string which may be missing a nil seems
> a recipe for problems at some point.

No objection, but please spell it "epicsStrnLen()" to match several
other routine names already in epicsString.h

> I'd rather use strlen() directly, but don't have time to fully
> investigate portability right now.  RTEMS 4.9 has it, windows has it [3]
> and the glibc needs POSIX-2008 compatibility [4].

There is no strnlen() routine provided by VxWorks, so we do have to
provide our own implementation there at least. It'll be easiest to add
it to src/libCom/misc/epicsString.c and just use that everywhere instead
of trying to switch to an OS-provided one at compile-time.

- Andrew

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