Re: generic strncpy - off-by-one error

[William Gallafent]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:50:06 +0900, Yoshinori Sato
> <ysato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > -	while (count) {
> > +	while (count > 1) {
>
> Given that count is a size_t, which seems to be derived from 'unsigned int'
> or 'unsigned long' on every platform, how are these any different?

Er, consider the case of count == 1. Fenceposts can be dangerous things.

-- 
Bill Gallafent.
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