In article <200004191658.e3JGwNL02270@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>,
Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> If strcpy(3) can check bounds, why on earth doesn't the libc one do so?
It can't. There's no easy way for strcpy(3) to know how many bytes have
been allocated for the destination buffer it is writing into. It's not
clear how to check bounds when you don't know what the bounds should be.
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