On 11 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Lots of kernel drivers rely on the libc definition of strncpy.
But that's ok. We _do_ do the padding. I hated it when I wrote it, but as
far as I know, the kernel strncpy() has done padding pretty much since day
one.
Yes, strlcpy() conversion users need to be careful, but I think we mostly
_were_ careful. Knock wood.
Linus
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