On Gwe, 2003-07-11 at 23:44, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.
/**
* strncpy - Copy a length-limited, %NUL-terminated string
* @dest: Where to copy the string to
* @src: Where to copy the string from
* @count: The maximum number of bytes to copy
*
* Note that unlike userspace strncpy, this does not %NUL-pad the buffer.
* However, the result is not %NUL-terminated if the source exceeds
* @count bytes.
*/
Only x86 does the padding
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