Commit 17666497 authored by Ulf Magnusson's avatar Ulf Magnusson Committed by Jonathan Corbet

sysfs.txt: mention that store method buffers are null-terminated

Without knowing this, the use of sysfs_streq() becomes puzzling.

The termination happens in kernfs_fop_write().
Signed-off-by: default avatarUlf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>
[jc: moved the new text to a different paragraph]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 9ba41327
......@@ -191,8 +191,9 @@ implementations:
be called again, rearmed, to fill the buffer.
- On write(2), sysfs expects the entire buffer to be passed during the
first write. Sysfs then passes the entire buffer to the store()
method.
first write. Sysfs then passes the entire buffer to the store() method.
A terminating null is added after the data on stores. This makes
functions like sysfs_streq() safe to use.
When writing sysfs files, userspace processes should first read the
entire file, modify the values it wishes to change, then write the
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