Re: generic strncpy - off-by-one error

[Andreas Schwab]

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx writes:

|> 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?

Let's suppose count == 1.

Andreas.

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