[ANNOUNCE, DISCUSS] xfsprogs: libxfs-4.1-update branch created

[Eric Sandeen]

On 5/13/15 5:25 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 5/13/15 5:14 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> One interesting problem that arises from this is in xfs_format.h:
>>
>> /* On-disk XFS extended attribute names */
>> #define SGI_ACL_FILE            (char *)"SGI_ACL_FILE"
>> #define SGI_ACL_DEFAULT         (char *)"SGI_ACL_DEFAULT"
>> #define SGI_ACL_FILE_SIZE       (sizeof(SGI_ACL_FILE)-1)
>> #define SGI_ACL_DEFAULT_SIZE    (sizeof(SGI_ACL_DEFAULT)-1)
>>
>> (aside: why is it unsigned in the kernel but not here?)
>>
>> Anyway: that "sizeof" gives us 7, because it's getting the
>> size of the pointer, not the string literal.  Cool eh!
>> Never mattered in the kernel, because the _SIZE macros aren't
>> used.
>>
>> I'm not actually sure what the cleanest way to fix this is;
>> casting string literals gets way past my comfort level with
>> C pedantry; technically if we want an array of unsigned chars,
>> we probably need:
>>
>> unsigned char *SGI_ACL_FILE[] = "SGI_ACL_FILE";
>> unsigned char *SGI_ACL_DEFAULT[] = "SGI_ACL_DEFAULT";
> 
> Er, drop the * of course ...

I think we can just drop the ([unsigned] char *) bit and move on,
assigning the string literal to an unsigned char * should be fine.
Right?

-Eric