Remove an XXX command suggesting that this truncation should not be conditional,

and also add a more verbose comment explaining why it is only needed in the
case of appending to the string for any curious readers that come along in the
future.


git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@48103 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3
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Russell Bryant
2006-11-29 05:08:19 +00:00
parent 62157d2839
commit 8ca3d51634

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@@ -997,7 +997,14 @@ int ast_dynamic_str_thread_build_va(struct ast_dynamic_str **buf, size_t max_len
return AST_DYNSTR_BUILD_FAILED;
(*buf)->len = need;
/* Truncate the previous attempt. XXX this should be unconditional */
/* Truncate the previous attempt. This is only needed for the
* append operation because if the write is from the beginning,
* it will get automatically overwritten when this function
* gets called again. When appending, if this was not done,
* this function would be called over and over again, because
* each attempt would be appending more and more partial
* strings, never having enough space to finish.
*/
if (append)
(*buf)->str[offset] = '\0';