[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] eal: support strlcat function

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 03:29:52PM +0100, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 17/01/2019 17:30, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Add the strlcat function to DPDK to exist alongside the strlcpy one.
> > While strncat is generally safe for use for concatenation, the API for the
> > strlcat function is perhaps a little nicer to use, and supports truncation
> > detection.
> > 
> > See commit 5364de644a4b ("eal: support strlcpy function") for more
> > details on the function selection logic, since we only should be using the
> > DPDK-provided version when no system-provided version is present.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> 
> Hi - I'd like to backport this to 18.11 stable branch. Not having it is
> starting to cause build failures with backports. Let me know if any
> objection.
> 
Go for it! No objections here, I think it makes sense.

/Bruce