Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Jeff Hill) · Fri, 22 Sep 95 11:06:57 MDT

> > RE: 8 character units field.
> > 
> > I vote to step on the 8th character position to guarantee null terminated
> > strings.  Then cdev can cleanly use get_units().
> 
> Agreed.
> 

Also agree. 

Null termination must be guaranteed. If this breaks a rare client
then we will only be required to fix that client. If we go with an 
inconsistent interface then we will add extra code (amd development
time) to all clients.

Jeff

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System