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Fix a wierd behavior of a function #272

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@NOVBobLee NOVBobLee commented Oct 6, 2024

The procfile_write prints the content what user writes into. However, when the content size is greater than or equal to PROCFS_MAX_SIZE, procfile_write will print nothing, because the index for appending the tail NULL character will be modulo to 0.

So, I modify the code with 1. restrict the max acceptable content size to (PROCFS_MAX_SIZE - 1), left a space for NULL character 2. discard the modulo because we already restrict the max size to (PROCFS_MAX_SIZE - 1)

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Refine the git commit message (including the typo: "wierd") and address the off-by-one error.

@jserv jserv requested a review from linD026 October 6, 2024 21:45
The procfile_write prints the content what user writes into. However,
when the content size is greater than or equal to PROCFS_MAX_SIZE,
procfile_write will print nothing, because the index for appending the
tail NULL character will be modulo to 0, which is an off-by-one error.

This fixes the problem by changing the upper bound of procfs_buffer_size
to (PROCFS_MAX_SIZE - 1), leaving one byte for NULL character. After
the change, we can discard the modulo because the range of
procfs_buffer_size is already between 0 and (PROCFS_MAX_SIZE - 1).
@jserv jserv merged commit 2eadbb1 into sysprog21:master Oct 7, 2024
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jserv commented Oct 7, 2024

Thank @NOVBobLee for contributing!

@NOVBobLee NOVBobLee deleted the pr_patch branch October 7, 2024 16:26
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