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Re: [PATCH] lib/string_helpers: clarify esc arg in string_escape_mem

From Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] lib/string_helpers: clarify esc arg in string_escape_mem
Date 2015-07-30 22:00 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 24 2015, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> The esc argument is used to reduce which characters will be escaped.
> For example, using " " with ESCAPE_SPACE will not produce any escaped
> spaces.
>

Yeah, I've been confused by this more than once - the old description
and the parameter name suggest that the esc string contains additional
characters to escape, not the other way around.

Could we also rename the parameter 'only' or something like that? In any
case,

Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
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[PATCH] lib/string_helpers: clarify esc arg in string_escape_mem Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-07-24 01:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] lib/string_helpers: clarify esc arg in string_escape_mem Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2015-07-30 22:00 +0200

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