Funny but maybe useful change

It speaks about itself

# This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project:
# Project Name: Linux kernel tree
# This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher. # This patch includes the following deltas:
# ChangeSet 1.404 -> 1.405
# lib/Makefile 1.7 -> 1.8
# include/linux/string.h 1.2 -> 1.3

#	               (new)	        -> 1.1     lib/strlcpy.c  
#	               (new)	        -> 1.1     lib/strlcat.c  

#
# The following is the BitKeeper ChangeSet Log
# --------------------------------------------
# 02/05/18 [email protected] 1.405
# Add strlcpy and strlcat (basic)
# --------------------------------------------
#

diff -Nru a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNLEN
 extern __kernel_size_t strnlen(const char *,__kernel_size_t);
 #endif
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLCPY
+extern __kernel_size_t strlcpy(char *, const char *, __kernel_size_t);
+#endif
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLCAT
+extern __kernel_size_t strlcat(char *, const char *, __kernel_size_t);
+#endif
+
 
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET
 extern void * memset(void *,int,__kernel_size_t);

diff -Nru a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 export-objs := cmdline.o dec_and_lock.o rwsem-spinlock.o rwsem.o rbtree.o
 
 obj-y := errno.o ctype.o string.o vsprintf.o brlock.o cmdline.o bust_spinlocks.o rbtree.o
+obj-y += strlcat.o strlcpy.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK) += rwsem-spinlock.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM) += rwsem.o

Paul P 'Stingray' Komkoff 'Greatest' Jr // (icq)23200764 // (irc)Spacebar
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You could start by using a GPL compatible license. Even then you have to ask why we need it. The kernel shouldn't be doing lots of string mangling.