[PATCH] xfstests: fix up fs_perms test used by 126

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Feb 8 13:40:58 CST 2010


On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 10:59:45AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> @@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ int main( int argc, char *argv[]) {
>                cgroupId = atoi(argv[3]);
>                userId = atoi(argv[4]);
>                groupId = atoi(argv[5]);
> -              fperm[0] = *argv[6];
> +              strncpy(fperm, argv[6], 3);
> +              fperm[2] = '\0';

This still looks rather weird to me.  What's the reason for copying
the string into a fixed length buffer?  Why not leave fperm as a pointer
to the original argument?

The rest of the patch looks fine, but a clean up pass on the whole
file wouldn't hurt either, it's a grotty mess..




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