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Re:Asmttpd – Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly by reipahb on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @03:34PM (#9572557)
However (almost?) all syscalls dealing with filesystem paths take null-terminated strings. See for example the implementation of the open() syscall:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/fb65d872d7a8dc629837a...

(Hence the need for the strncpy_from_user()-function: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/fb65d872d7a8dc629837a...)

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Re:Asmttpd – Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly by eddyb on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @05:29PM (#9573284)
Ahh, I totally missed the path arguments, my bad.
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