A new API for mounting filesystems [LWN.net]

A new API for mounting filesystems

Posted Apr 3, 2017 17:34 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: A new API for mounting filesystems by Homer512
Parent article: A new API for mounting filesystems

With my scheme there are no \0 symbols in the mix. So just get strlen() of the whole thing.

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Posted Apr 3, 2017 20:58 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

It's impossible to call strlen till you allocate butter and put all the data into it. And calculating size of buffer is not trivial

Posted Apr 3, 2017 21:02 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

And how is that different from a bag of \0-terminated key-value pairs?